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Group: uk.transport.london · Group Profile
Author: Roland Perry
Date: Sep 16, 2008 07:57

In message <6j9krsF24gp9U1@mid.individual.net>, at 12:50:18 on Tue, 16
Sep 2008, Tim Roll-Pickering qmul.ac.uk> remarked:
>> If you think
>> I'm being unreasonable then go into a corner shop and see the reaction
>> you get if you try and buy a mars bar with a 50 quid note.
>
>Isn't there an actual law that allows retailers the ability to refuse
>payment if offered in too high a denomination?

They don't have to give change, and most of the time can refuse to do
the transaction if sensible payment isn't offered. It gets a bit blurred
in the public imagination when the retailer is a "public service" (sic).
--
Roland Perry
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