Location: Chester county, Penna.
Date: Wednesday August 8th, 2012
Today, a cashier in a clothing consignment shop asked me for my driver's license when I tried to purchase a $16 pair of sunglasses using a current style (series 2006) U.S. $100 dollar bill [i.e., I had a current $100 FRN; not something out of the ordinary such as a series 1966 red seal U.S. Note].
The cashier said they have to record ones name/driver's license info when some one makes a purchase with a $100 dollar bill. She said it was policy before she started working there and she was sorry.
I told her I don't have a driver's license (a true statement because I never renewed mine since the mid-1990s when the Commonwealth of Penna. 'required' an SSN for the Driver's license).
So I took out a fifty but she said the policy also applies to purchases with $50 dollar bills. I had no smaller bills in my wallet.
The cashier then asked the manager for a waiver; but the manager said no, it was corporate policy.
I said I'd make a purchase at a food store and then return for the sunglasses. The cashier put them aside and wrapped them up in tissue paper for safe keeping. I do not fault the young lady cashier.
So I left w/o the sunglasses; changed the $100 bill elsewhere; came back with a $20 (FRN) bill and used that for the purchase.
No Driver's license inspection required for a purchase w/ a $20 bill. At least not for now?
7 comments:
You should have never went back! The only way to stop the madness is to REFUSE to buy anything. When people stand up and refuse to comply and they start losing their businesses they will stop their madness! They only get away with this crap as long as people comply like sheeple! The power is with the people but the people have to exercise that power which means STOP COMPLYING! Go without if need be!
I would have left without any purchase of any kind. When will the brain dead consumer wake up and refuse to buy into this bs?
What's next? A DNA sample? A blood test? A drug test?
You have just entered the Twilight Zone on Steroids
That's because nobody but Me raised hell when they started demanding id's for beer (alcohol) cigarettes and at Radio Shack. The average idiot in this country don't deserve freedom. unfortunately they are the anchor around the necks of those of us that do deserve liberty and freedom. I don't want to harm them I just want to make it so their stupidity can't continue to harm Me any more. We must remove the evil bastards that are using their apathy and stupidity to steal our liberty and deny us justice. RESIST!!!!!!!NOW!!!!!!!
I agree the store's policy is a little over the top but I think they are trying to avert a problem that doesn't exist for 99% of their transactions and could be solved by buying $1.98 pen to check the bills.
Counterfeiting 50's and 100's is the most profitable of all ink crimes. As a retailer, I have been caught a couple of times in the last 25 years with bad bills. If the bank accepts them, the liability transfers to them. If not, you are on the hook for it.
What's next is the mark of the beast!
Everyone already accepted the mark of the beast! It is the NAME! That fictious artificial legal "person" NAME created on the birth certificate! AKA the strawman! It is the "First Middle Last" Name. You cannot buy or sell within the system of commerce without it! It doesn't matter how rich or poor, everyone must have a fiction NAME to operate in commerce!
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