Younger cashiers at NY grocery retailer allegedly reject man’s $2-bills believing they have been counterfeit

A New York man claims {that a} native grocery chain refused to just accept his $2 payments — with younger cashiers believing the weird, however authorized, notes to be counterfeit, he claims in a Fb put up.

Richard Scott Steger, of Wurtsboro, NY, was purchasing 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 put up.

Then, not one — however two younger cashiers insisted that the payments have been counterfeit with out even making an effort to test them.

“I used to be in Aldi’s this morning in Monticello… I needed to pay with some $2 payments… the younger man refused to just accept them and insisted they have been counterfeit,” Steger stated in a put up on the group “Uncensored Sullivan County New York Information and Politics.”

Steger insisted that the younger man test the invoice, however was met with boastful and aggressive ignorance.

“He confirmed me on [the bills] that the place it says “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL ETC”… which means they’re faux,” Steger says the dope instructed him.

The phrase in query is, “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE,” which seems inside the border on one aspect of the two-dollar invoice and which clearly states their legality.

The cashier then introduced the payments to certainly one of 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 faux.’ So, with out even checking them, she rudely and arrogantly instructed me, ‘We’re not accepting them!,’” Steger wrote within the put up.

“Then she gave me the ‘ef you’ve a pleasant day smile to go away… if you already know what I imply,” the put up learn.

“Completely disgusting and unprofessional therapy to a daily buyer!,” Steger concluded.

Reps for Aldi didn’t reply to The Publish’s request for remark on the time of publication.

The $2 invoice contains a portrait of third president Thomas Jefferson on one aspect and an engraving of John Trumbull’s portray “Declaration of Independence.”

Generally 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 dangerous fame — being related to voter fraud, prostitution, and playing.

There are at present 1.2 billion $2 payments in circulation, based on Titlemax.