A minor rant - Stupid shopkeepers
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No, they don't. Shops can refuse to serve you for pretty much any reason, unless it's race or sex etc.
Legal tender just means something more technical, can't remember the precise definition but it's to do with banks being obligated to give you the value of the note when presented with it.
I have no patience at all. I often walk out of a shop because of poor service.
More than likely if the guy had come out saying ok in the end i would still have said **** you i am off elsewhere.
I hate it when you have people with poor social skills working at the counter etc why don't they work in factorys if they dont want to deal with the public.
Funny you should mention the Co op as this is where i do my bit of shopping. Its well dated and has loads of lovely old biddys working there. Its a pleasure going in there and having a laugh with them as they are right up for a giggle and very friendly.
The manager is some young dude about 30'ish but even he says hi and is sociable.
They have other sections for electrical and furniture and at xmas i popped over to see if they had anything for presents. Some gorgeous angelic blonde girl about mid 20's took my list off me and led me round picking out all my presents. It took around 40 minutes in total and was the easiest time i have ever had whilst shopping.
I walked out with all my presents sorted and absolutely no stress at all, considering how nice it would be to take her home as well.
Now thats service.
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More than likely if the guy had come out saying ok in the end i would still have said **** you i am off elsewhere.
I hate it when you have people with poor social skills working at the counter etc why don't they work in factorys if they dont want to deal with the public.
Funny you should mention the Co op as this is where i do my bit of shopping. Its well dated and has loads of lovely old biddys working there. Its a pleasure going in there and having a laugh with them as they are right up for a giggle and very friendly.
The manager is some young dude about 30'ish but even he says hi and is sociable.
They have other sections for electrical and furniture and at xmas i popped over to see if they had anything for presents. Some gorgeous angelic blonde girl about mid 20's took my list off me and led me round picking out all my presents. It took around 40 minutes in total and was the easiest time i have ever had whilst shopping.
I walked out with all my presents sorted and absolutely no stress at all, considering how nice it would be to take her home as well.
Now thats service.
The Co Op Owns
Plenty of Sweaty shops won't allow you to pay with English notes.
I used to know a shop that, for whatever reason, accepted Irish punts at par to the pound - That certainly made life a lot cheaper for a while
(For those unaware, the 1 punt was worth less than 1 pound.)
Apparently Scottish notes are, in theory, only cheques.
:/
I used to know a shop that, for whatever reason, accepted Irish punts at par to the pound - That certainly made life a lot cheaper for a while
(For those unaware, the 1 punt was worth less than 1 pound.)
Apparently Scottish notes are, in theory, only cheques.
:/
Or maybe people in England and Wales don't often see Scottish notes so they're hesistant to accept them. Who gets the bigger rolleyes: someone who doesn't know about Scottish notes and is wary of accepting them or someone who blindly takes anything that has £x written on it?Windle said:yeah common misconception down south, which is why i always swap my notes at a bank if i'm heading down england way. Seems to stem from the fact, some people know £1 notes aren't legal and come from scotland hence ALL notes from scotland aren't legal tender
Why does Scotland (and Northern Ireland for that matter) feel it necessary to have their own notes? It's just added cost and extra confusion and for what...national identity? :\
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Borris said:
why would you want to go in a sweaty shop? must smell bad in there 
Our local newsagent wont accept scottish notes but only because he has had a lot of fakes recently, he also has a sign up explaining this.
Personally I would haVE JUST LEFT MY GROCERIES (damn you caps lock
) there and gone elsewhere too, even if I had my card with me. I'm choosy who gets my hard earned, and it certainly doesnt go to rude and ignorant people.Fog
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well that's it, anybody can refuse a sale if they suspect you are using fake tender. Most shop keepers/assistants in the uk dont deal with scottish nearly enough to confidently be able to tell a fake, though why the hell they dont jsut use dector pens is beyound me.
That's all fine though, if an assistant told me they couldn't accept scottish on those grounds thats really ok, but for the shop keeper to turn around and tell you banks dont accept scottish tender? WTF is he on about? doesnt sound like he knows jack.
That's all fine though, if an assistant told me they couldn't accept scottish on those grounds thats really ok, but for the shop keeper to turn around and tell you banks dont accept scottish tender? WTF is he on about? doesnt sound like he knows jack.
Can I join in on the rant about shopkeepers, yesterday i went out to get a packet of mcvities finest milk chocolate digestives, i went to the spar, they didnt have any, I was quite miffed but I wanted the biscuits so I then walked to another shop which is further than the spar in the opposite direction from where i live, i hand over my change for the said biscuits and the guy refuses to accept my coppers, I roll my eyes at him for a while until he asked if it was the right change and starts counting it. I was not happy.
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LOL
I think that's the real bottom line here.
His argument was not correct - the note is legal.
However his requirement to actually accept the money you are offering him was non-existant, he isn't forced to accept anything.
As for walking out of a store to the point where shopkeepers come running after you "begging" for your custom.
I somehow doubt this would be the case for the sake of £10 - £20 anywhere.
No shop keeper is going to start crying for forgiveness over such a small amount of cash.
His argument was not correct - the note is legal.
However his requirement to actually accept the money you are offering him was non-existant, he isn't forced to accept anything.
As for walking out of a store to the point where shopkeepers come running after you "begging" for your custom.
I somehow doubt this would be the case for the sake of £10 - £20 anywhere.
No shop keeper is going to start crying for forgiveness over such a small amount of cash.
As stated it is not technically legal tender but it should still have been accepted.
In regards to the point about Scottish notes - have a look at the history of banking and you will see that England once had lots of different notes being kicked around. It was only relatively recently that the bank of england took sole charge of publishing notes. Scottish banks have a historical right to print notes and as such still do.
It won't matter anyway becuase no doubt we will all end up moving to the euro at some point or later.
In regards to the point about Scottish notes - have a look at the history of banking and you will see that England once had lots of different notes being kicked around. It was only relatively recently that the bank of england took sole charge of publishing notes. Scottish banks have a historical right to print notes and as such still do.
It won't matter anyway becuase no doubt we will all end up moving to the euro at some point or later.
james.miller said:
Erm, I'm not sure how legal it is to put an image of a bank note on a web page. It doesn't have specimin clearly printed anywhere on it so I'm not sure you're allowed to do that. Apparently lots of image manipulation software can detect if the image you're trying to open is a bank note and it won't let you open it.