Why is this? person at supermarket check-out paid with fifty eight £1 coins!!!?

Question

needless to say some queue built up!!!

Answer 1

She must have had 58 stockings hanging in her fireplace on Christmas Day. A £1 coin in each of them, the greedy bugger.



In an unrelated incident ~ When I paid earlier, 3 £1 coins went flying in different directions across the floor of the supermarket. I spent a couple of minutes chasing them around before I paid the cashier lady.

Answer 2

Well, sometimes you just have to pay with what you've got to hand! A bit like buying a newspaper and only having a £20 note on you.



Why did a queue build up anyway? It's not like it takes more than 20 or 30 seconds to count out 58 identical coins - it would take just as long as that to pay by credit or debit card. You do get some cashiers who are like "one... two..." etc, but that's hardly the fault of the person paying.



If supermarkets had machines where you could put in twenty £1 coins and get a £20 note out (and I'm NOT talking about those rip-off Coinstar jobbies that take a massive cut of whatever you put in and only give out vouchers!) then I'd agree that handing over a massive handful of £1 coins would be inconsiderate. But they don't, so it isn't - as I said, sometimes you just have to pay with whatever you've got to hand.



The worst one is when someone has about a million vouchers and coupons saved up and they decide to use the whole lot of them on a single shopping trip. Takes absolutely ages to put them all through.



By the way supermarkets don't HAVE to accept any coins, cards, milk tokens, notes or anything - in fact they don't have to serve you at all if they don't want to. Many shops already refuse £50 notes (and £100 notes in Scotland) due to the risk of forgery. The "legal tender" thing, where you're limited in terms of what coins you can pay with, applies only to the settlement of debts.

Answer 3

It wouldn't take that long for an experienced clerk to count 58 coins



pound coins are legal tender for any amount, I just checked, although I had thought it was 50 quid or something.



http://www.royalmint.com/corporate/policies/legal_tender_guidelines.aspx



notice the limits are potty, for instance 2p's are only legal tender up to 20p, 10 of them, but the annoying 5p has a limit of £5, so if you owed someone £5 you could discharge the debt with 100 5p coins.

Answer 4

I raised a good scene once. One of many.

I despise capitalist monopolies.



A major UK building society branch refused to allow me to pay in a large amount of bagged pound coins for someone else who at the time was ill saying that 5 bags was the maxumum due to causing queues.



Bollocks says I and I publicly announced how they only had three out of ten cashier points manned the rest closed. I stood outside stopping people and encouraging them to close their accounts and bank elsewhere due to appalling customer service.



After a futile attempt at bringing police (lol) who I frankly told to go away and dont harrass me or there will be another scene as talking to people on a pavement is no offence in law the manager soon came forward and carried out my original request AND put me ahead of the queue to do so giving my demanded apology for wasting my time.

It was an entertaining scene for me and many others.

The same bank / building society by the way has been hugely complicit in bringing UK's economy to its knees and laying off staff recently.



Legal tender. They must accept it. Dont accept feeble excuses !

Answer 5

They must have raided their piggy bank! Seems a bit thoughtless to be honest. It wouldn't have been much trouble to go to a bank first to change them into notes, surely. Or even use one of those change machines that you get in supermarkets.



It is legal to do this, though, - there is no limits on these coins as to how much you can use in one transaction, unlike some coins in scotland where there is a limit - 50ps are legal only to the value of £10, for example (although £1 are legal any amount). But, while legal, it is inconsiderate.

Answer 6

Probably emptied their change bottle, so thank your lucky stars that they didn't try to pay in 10ps.



When I had my Fish & Chips Shop a young Girl from a Family I knew, when told the bill was £6 odd, produced a carrier bag full of change, and recited "Mummy says sorry". Only took a few minutes to count, and the largest denomination coin was a 20p.

Answer 7

Just because they can refuse, doesn't mean they will! It wouldn't take long to count, so the queue can't have been that long. Who knows why they had £58 in pound coins.

Answer 8

What is even slower and guaranteed to hold you up for days are the dizzy women who place their handbag in the bottom of the trolley - Proceed to pack every item in separate bags so she can remember which bag it was in when she gets home - Proceed to bury said bag under shopping and then looked shocked and amazed payment is required - necessitating location/retrieval of said bag - Location of purse - Major decision as to which card to use - problem remembering PIN.

Transaction proceeds - thank God say you - But then we have to put Card back into correct slot in purse - Put purse back in bag - Put bag back in trolley all with the ill-grace of a self-centred (I'm the only one who damn well matters here attitude)

Answer 9

there is a limit you can't pay with a thousand coins in court for a fine I seen a guy get charged with contempt of court for saying he could pay and was going to pay the fine with a thousand coins.



My mother said shops by the way can refuse to take more than twnety coins as payment years ago

Answer 10

There are loads of fake £1 coins around and so they should not have accepted them, but if they checked them and found that they were all right then the person was just been awkward, and making other people wait to be served....

Answer 11

they'd emptied the money box?



or maybe they won it on a gambling machine



it doesn't take much for a queue to build up in a supermarket.....i usually find i have the slowest assistant in the history of the world....and they seem to follow me from one store to the next...lol

Answer 12

Money is money and hey have o accept it..

Sometimes people are down to spending their coin collection and other times it is kids that have robbed someone's coin collection..

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Answer 13

Blimey! They must have been heavy to carry to the supermarket! Perhaps he/she is one of those people who save coins in jars.

Answer 14

Bloody ridiculous, do you know whether the customer asked for £1 coins?

Answer 15

You know what happens when people do things like that when they're in front of me, I go find another que and still people join the que and stand behind tutting and rolling their eyes.........Imbeciles.

Answer 16

The first answerer is completely wrong.



there is a limit to how many coins you can use to pay for a transaction, and the merchant has a full and LEGAL right to refuse to accept too many coins.



Im not making this up, google it if you dont believe me.

Answer 17

I have a book of stamps so I'll use them to pay for my lunch next week.

Answer 18

Don't mean to be rude (well not that much anyway), but what's the point of this question again?

Answer 19

Dunno, but i'm sure they felt a lot lighter for it :)