A New York man claims {that a} native grocery chain refused to just accept his $2 payments — with younger cashiers believing the bizarre, however authorized, notes to be counterfeit, he claims in a Fb submit.
Richard Scott Steger, of Wurtsboro, NY, was procuring at an Aldi grocery retailer in Sullivan County on Monday and tried to settle his invoice with money — together with some $2 notes, based on a Fb submit.
Then, not one — however two younger cashiers insisted that the payments had been counterfeit with out even making an effort to verify them.
clueless younger cashiers. Richard Scott Steger/Fb
“I was in Aldi’s this morning in Monticello… I wanted to pay with some $2 bills… the young guy refused to accept them and insisted they were counterfeit,” Steger mentioned in a submit on the group “Uncensored Sullivan County New York News and Politics.”
Steger insisted that the younger man verify the invoice, however was met with boastful and aggressive ignorance.
“He showed me on [the bills] that where it says “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL ETC”… which means they’re faux,” Steger says the dope informed him.
The phrase in query is, “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE,” which seems throughout the border on one facet of the two-dollar invoice and which clearly states their legality.
The cashier then introduced the payments to one among his younger feminine coworkers.
She requested the younger man if he checked the payments with the counterfeit markers used at grocery shops.
“He whispered ‘no, they’re fake.’ So, without even checking them, she rudely and arrogantly told me, ‘We’re not accepting them!,’” Steger wrote within the submit.
“Then she gave me the ‘ef you have a nice day smile to leave… if you know what I mean,” the submit learn.
“Absolutely disgusting and unprofessional treatment to a regular customer!,” Steger concluded.
Reps for Aldi didn’t reply to The Publish’s request for remark on the time of publication.
The $2 invoice encompasses a portrait of third president Thomas Jefferson on one facet and an engraving of John Trumbull’s portray “Declaration of Independence.”
Typically known as “toms” or “deuces,” the $2 invoice was first printed in 1862, and have appeared of their present design since 1976 — the yr of the Bicentennial.
Within the twentieth century, two-dollar notes had a foul status — being related to voter fraud, prostitution and playing.
There are presently 1.2 billion $2 payments in circulation, based on Titlemax.
