All I see are commie electric plugs and commie dollar signs. dirty commie money. only USA money number one top quality!
Plastic money is currently being phased in in the UK at the moment too. So far its just plastic £5 notes, which is a lot of notes since they are one of the super common ones.
I was an idiot and put one in a change machine and never got it back. Oops. I don't like the idea of the new pound. THINK OF THE TROLLIES
If the side effect of it is that the trolleys that need a £1 coin to be unlocked all become obsolete I will gladly accept the new coin I had no idea plastic notes were being phased in. One day a cashier at a shop handed me a plastic note as change, certainly took me by surprise but for some reason I didn't even question it. They could have handed me anything I guess.
I guess if they temporarily remove it, it will be the perfect time to nick one then throw it in a river haha
Like a £1 coin is going to stop anyone anyway. Which is probably why most supermarkets don't use them. A few of the Tesco's have trolleys where the wheels lock up if you leave the stores perimeter (car park included ofc). The local Morrisons doesn't do anything with their trolleys, however they send some staff out every week to collect trolleys from my apartment complex because they seem to accumulate here, even the maintenance staff use Morrisons trolleys to carry equipment around.
I think it only tends to be in rougher areas. I haven't seen any trolleys in my current area with locks on. While the only place where I have seen geofenced self locking wheels is Tesco Aberdare (go figure). There used to be a lot of trolleys with £1 locks on in Middlesbrough area where I used to live but they got phased out over time. I don't know if people get trolley locks in other countries so here is an image for reference: In the UK you put a £1 coin in the slot and the lock unlocks. Then when you park the trolley back again your £1 is released out of the trolley again.
The sainsbury's I usually go to seems to be right on the edge of a slightly dodgy area. Coming to think about it, all of the supermarkets are in dodgy areas. In the okay areas it seems to only be smaller shops. Anyway, since this conversation has come from talk about currency, it's always interesting to see new types of coins and notes, I mean I'm not particularly interested in that stuff but it's satisfying to see new stuff.
Well I imagine that is because they charge more in the smaller Tesco Express stores than they do in the super stores. So it probably makes sense to put them in more affluent areas.
Went into the city centre today, pretty much didn't need to buy any food because I received at first 2 slices of pizza from a new pizza place that were giving out food for free as a promotion, and also got a free smoothie that for some reason a transport company were giving out, I think it was only so you'd actually stop to talk to them about their new deals or something haha
yeah, but equally the old coins hold sentimental value. Plus the older coins still have a lot of life left in them, presumably the benefit outweighs the cost of reclaiming all the old ones, melting them down, designing new ones, creating the equipment to make news one and then manufacturing new ones. But that is a lot of energy to put into something. I guess it creates new jobs for people who have to fix all of the stuff that is going to be made obsolete and incompatible though ;/
True. It's a complicated of course when none of the old machines will accept the coin. But you have to admit it't very satisfying seeing a brand new, shiny coin
