A.A. sent us these photos, and writes,
That’s the sign I saw at the Bath & Body Works store in a Tanger Outlet Mall in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. I didn’t go inside to find out if my legal tender was no good there or what, but I’m a fan of the site and thought y’all would get a kick out of the pics.
The U.S. Treasury says that’s fine, stores don’t have to accept cash. We’re just worried the people in Pigeon Forge know something about the U.S. dollar that we don’t.
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I rarely use or even have cash on me, but stores not taking cash is a little too reminiscent of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ for me…
I really hope this was a temporary thing b/c they didn’t have change or the safe was locked, etc.
Scary.
As a resident of the area (when I’m not attending school in boston), I can pretty well say that the stores got hit extra-hard by tourists that day and didn’t prepare themselves with enough low bills. It’s happened at the Ben & Jerry’s I work at in the same mall.
Luckily, there’s a lady who goes through the mall selling $1′s. They’ll have the sign down once she passes. . . or once the manager goes to the bank.
Silly tourist towns.
@Chris Walters: Bout time you guys fought back, way to go!!!
@ArmandoPenblade: Selling one dollar bills? How much does she charge for a dollar bill?
Should have put a caveat on the sign: “Unless exact change provided”.
@GC: Or my point of view….if you don’t want my money, I’ll go elsewhere…with MY money.
i’m guessing there is a legitimate reason and that this is a temporary problem. if it were a permanant policy, i’m guessing the sign would be a little more official, or at least the peice of paper would be faded/old looking.
This happened at the poorly managed ice cream store I worked at as a high schooler. I was working alone (SO POORLY MANAGED), had no cash and the manager didn’t return my calls. Oh, and we didn’t have a credit card machine.
“I can accept a check for that smoothie.”
I was there shopping on that day. I even went inside. If you would have gone in, you would have found out that all their registers where down and they had to work with small handheld scanners that did not have register drawers (hence why they could only take credit cards). I was also there when the registers started to work and then the associate were more than happy to take cash. All the associates were very friendly and were happy to answer any questions. Next time, go insde and find your answer.
@seviervilleshopper: I think the person who posted this article just wanted to be on consumerist. Rather than logically finding out him/herself why, the person just ASSumed that the store and its employees wanted to personally screw over their customers.
Dollywood, here I come!
There’s a veritable bevy of reasons why they may not have been able to accept cash that day. Safe wouldn’t open, keys were lost, registers went offline, change was low…note that none of those reasons are “because we want to screw the consumers.”
Glad to see that halfway down the thread people started noticing the misspelling of “inconvenience.” One of my managers used to embarrass me by misspelling things all the time.
(Is it “none of those reasons are” or “none of those reasons is?” I can never get that right.)