That's illegal!

[rerant]

A quickie from today.
I'm sure most of you are now familiar with my work's split payment system at the registers from me mentioning it many times as a constant source of frustration, but if you're not hip to the Ikea jive I'll save myself some typing while still offering you appropriate background info.
http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=12006

A coworker had to send a customer to another lane, since his was only accepting debit and credit cards and she was paying cash. Well naturally she ended up in my lane.
Once she made her way to the front she started on her rant about our (perfectly logical and actually very efficient) system then she got to this point:

SW: You know it's illegal not to accept Canadian currency!

I couldn't let her think she had come out with some inarguable fact that would put our system to shame, so I retaliated with this sickly sweet gem:

ME: Well, no one is refusing anything here. We're just specifying which registers are able to accept the currency, since the debit and credit lanes don't have cash tills and can therefore not physically handle any money. This process has been in effect for nearly a year now and we've had three different methods of signage, none of which have been effective on the part of customers noticing them. So now it's your responsibility to know that in this store we do things our way, and if you don't wish to be inconvenienced by it then a little bit of attention is all that's needed.

And I did it all with a smile.

[Sliceanddice]

wait... isnt perfectly legal not to except another countrys legal tenders? since you aren't infact in that country??? if not then damn i wanna buy some stuff with i dont know... yens.
is been brought to my attention that rerant is in fact in canada so... opps sorry ignore the crazy before.

[Jacen]

wait... isnt perfectly legal not to except another countrys legal tenders? since you aren't infact in that country??? if not then damn i wanna buy some stuff with i dont know... yens.
is been brought to my attention that rerant is in fact in canada so... opps sorry ignore the crazy before.

As far as I know, there is no law saying that HAVE to take money at all. (Credit cards are technicly not money... their plastic cards lol)

It's simple logic (see my other post in another thread about logic) that the store is devided into two sections, one that does one thing, another that does another. I've never been to this kind of store... but you'd expect the credit/debit lane to move faster then the money lane. Hmm...

[trunks2k]

As far as I know, there is no law saying that HAVE to take money at all. (Credit cards are technicly not money... their plastic cards lol)

Dunno how it works in Canadia, but in the US, cash must be accepted to pay a bill. But a store may refuse a sale. So say I go to a gas station and fill up my tank and then go inside to pay. They cannot take that gas back, and I have to pay them for it, so they must accept cash as payment for it. However, if I go into the convenience store at that gas station, and try to pay for a candy bar with 100 pennies, they can just refuse the sale.

[Seshat]

There is, however, no law that I know of saying that every point of sale must accept cash. The company as a whole continues to accept cash, just not every cashier station. I presume that the company's legal department checked that before the company set up that way.

[Javarod]

Speaking of paying for something with another country's currency, I can think of one place you can do that, Pizza Patron I think is the name, and they accept payment in Pesos (think Dominos, PJ's or other chain pizzeria aimed at the Hispanic market).

As to the cash thing, I wouldn't be surprised ifn there is a law requiring you to accept US currency as payment, though it'd likely be something old from back when the country was first starting out and states used to issue their own currency and still wanted to, you'd prolly have to force them to take US currency at that time since currency is effectively a government promisary note.

[Captain Kidd]

As to the cash thing, I wouldn't be surprised ifn there is a law requiring you to accept US currency as payment, though it'd likely be something old from back when the country was first starting out and states used to issue their own currency and still wanted to, you'd prolly have to force them to take US currency at that time since currency is effectively a government promisary note.

yes ... yet no, at least in the US.
From Wikipedia (so trust it as far as you can throw the server it's on)

Legal Tender in the United States
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.

ETA: Ah ha, US Treasury Department FAQ which has a paragraph that the wiki article seems to have taken verbatim.
So, donno about Canada, but a store here in the states could decide to only take bananas in exchange for goods.

[Becks]

ME: Well, no one is refusing anything here. We're just specifying which registers are able to accept the currency, since the debit and credit lanes don't have cash tills and can therefore not physically handle any money. This process has been in effect for nearly a year now and we've had three different methods of signage, none of which have been effective on the part of customers noticing them. So now it's your responsibility to know that in this store we do things our way, and if you don't wish to be inconvenienced by it then a little bit of attention is all that's needed.

And I did it all with a smile.

You ROCK!!!


What was her reaction to that, anyway?