How much spare change can you pay with?

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Mom Denied Groceries for 'Hungry Children' Because She Can Only Pay in Change | The Stir

I'm trying to see both sides of this story.

If I'm shopping, I won't want to bring $32 in spare change and holding up line making clerk count all $32. If the person can some what stack it up so that the clerk doesn't have to count $32, great.

Why cannot the person get change from bank? I am sure that bank is free. Customer services come to mind too.

I do agree that the clerk in story was a jerk. Was the clerk told by her/his boss that they cannot take this much in spare change? There has to be some kind of rule in place to warn people to not bring too much spare change if that is the issue.

THat person had every right to be in line and spend $32 in coins, but there are ways that it would have been avoided. NO reason to have to spend $32 in coins if it would be traded in for $32 in dollars. Not $29 or $30 in dollars.
 
There is amount stores can refuse. Depend denomination coin. Not know off hand total, but google will know. Is different Canada, land of $1 $2 coins.
 
well, most people in stores just don't like counting change. They wouldn't even accept change that had been stacked into those plastic coin wrappers (know what I mean?) and even banks won't accept them because they don't want to take the time to count and verify accurate amounts. So, what is one to do if they have no bills, they're hungry and decide to break open the piggy bank so they can eat but no one wants to have the kindness enough to take the time to count so kids can eat.

Sorry, but c'mon - having a heart should prevail in such situations.
 
I thought our money said, "Good for all debts, public and private." I don't think it is legal to refuse the money just because it is change.
 
Change is money. Money is legal tender. I sympathize that the clerk might not have been happy about it, but I don't think she has any legal backing to refuse to take change.
 
From Canada treasury:

(2) A payment in coins referred to in subsection (1) is a legal tender for no more than the following amounts for the following denominations of coins:
(a) forty dollars if the denomination is two dollars or greater but does not exceed ten dollars;
(b) twenty-five dollars if the denomination is one dollar;
(c) ten dollars if the denomination is ten cents or greater but less than one dollar;
(d) five dollars if the denomination is five cents; and
(e) twenty-five cents if the denomination is one cent.
 
Sounds like the clerks are too stupid or too lazy to count out the change themselves. I could count up $32 worth of change in the same time it takes someone to use a debit or charge card. If done right, it's no big deal.

I used to be a cashier at a movie theater concession stand. I had no register, just a plastic tray with dividers for the coins. I counted out change by hand (and head) all the time. It's not that hard.

In the time it took the clerk to refuse the change, he could have been almost done counting it.
 
So....unless the lady try pay all toonies, this store well within legal rights refuse accept coin. Moral right another question altogether.
 
I hope that it was $32 in mostly quarters. If so, it would not be THAT hard to count. If it was $32 in pennies, then, that would obviously take a lot of time to count.
 
dereksbicycles said:
I hope that it was $32 in mostly quarters. If so, it would not be THAT hard to count. If it was $32 in pennies, then, that would obviously take a lot of time to count.
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The article said quarters.

Pennies do take a little longer. The key is, count in 10 units of ten, by two's, not a 100-penny pile for each dollar.

I wonder if she could have gone to the customer service desk before starting shopping to exchange her coins for bills?
 
I would think the clerk could have called for the manager, the manager take the receipt and the groceries and the mom to the customer service desk and counted the money there. And would also think that the store has some type of "device" to count the change - what do they do with the change in the registers at the end of the day?
 
If I knew what store it was, I would say we should all gather 10 ~ 20 dollars worth of change and get in line - let the cashiers turn down all of our business. Embarrass them right back. Maybe we give them a downtrodden look, and go to the back of the line and just watch the store manager go crazy as we all keep rotating through the line. he he he
 
I was behind someone who paid for her groceries ($128) and it was all in change. Mostly quarters, but a few dimes and nickels. She told the cashier first before placing groceries on belt, then cashier got the front end manager over to help with the counting when the time came. They had no problem. By the way, this was in WalMart.
 
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