Popeyes won’t take $100 bills

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Wtf? Lame. Their 20 pieces of chicken + 3 large sides and 8 biscuits is $66.99+ tax ffs. Should be allowed to pay with legal currency. Stupid. A tank of gas costs more than $100! A hundred dollar bill is f all anymore but if you pay with cash you’re expected to carry a stack of 20’s. Dumb.

Why is that? There's a similar thing in the UK with £50 notes. Some places just refuse to take them. I never understood it.

Because they’re worried about counterfeits.

I told them they should train staff on counterfeit detection and get a black light to check for UV markings on big bills vs inconveniencing customers with legitimate money.

But why would $100 bills be any more likely to be counterfeit than smaller ones?

anyone would think you're in a cartoon! Get out a pen and paper and draw them some cash. They will soon prefer the 100 dollar bill!

..because they’re worth $100 each ?

Get one past someone and you get $100 worth of goods and/or change - the most you can get from a single bill now that larger hills are all out of regular circulation.

Also, retail employees don’t see hundred dollar bills all day every day so wouldn’t be as familiar with what they’re supposed to look like compared to the 20’s they see constantly.

Why go through the hassle of making 20 fake fives and having 20x the chance of them being discovered as fakes when you can make one $100 bill and sneak it past someone?

Ok, yeah. That seems obvious now! That's why I'd have made a crap criminal.

Once was given a fake £5 note as though at the time we had to be careful of fake £20 notes, none of us bothered checking the £5 notes. I was working on th railway at the time and took it into the transport police. He said "We won't be seeing many of these". I asked why? He said "This has taken someone hours of work". Minimum wage back then was £6.50 an hour. Hours of work! He showed me how they had made it by copying both sides and then carefully thinning out the paper (Which takes hours to do) and glueing them back together. They even highlighted in silverpen the metal strip, which is the bit that origionally made the note stand out as being different. Those were the days when we had paper notes.

Lots of gas stations in the US during the 90s would not accept $100s because they were worried about being robbed. Some stations had signs that they kept less than a certain amount in the register. I'm guessing they put most of their cash in their safe whenever there was a break in customers. Lots of people use cards these days instead of cash, even more likely when spending higher ammounts so I think $100s get used even less today, not counting for under the table & illegal things.

I recall getting payment in the form of ten $100 bills and then spending them perhaps fifteen years ago.
I didn't have any trouble spending them.

I knew somebody that got a couple $1000 bills for they're car back in the 80s. They're still in circulation, but you have to order them ahead.

Because you break the $100 and turn it into real money when making a purchase.

This works less effectively with smaller bills.

I have a zillion years of experience in retail standing behind cash registers.

At the chain drugstore I cashiered at there is nothing more annoying than....if the first customer on a Sunday morning is rich looking middle aged well dressed White guy...trying to buy a two dollar Sunday paper...with a 100 bill.

The banks are closed sunday and if you're the first customer of the day you only the mininum money in the register till. So changing that 100 bill would clean you out and then some.

Later in the day when you got losts of 20s in the til ..then yes you can make change.

Retail employees are all minimun wage. They cant afford to train them to be police detectives. And even if they could supply each store with a black light and the training to use it it would cause you the customer at least as much delay and hassle as it would be ...to go to the bank and break that 100 into 20s.

Not true.

At the bar I worked at I would use my thumb and finger tips to confirm bills were real because I could feel the raised ink when I grabbed them a certain way and slid my finger tips or thumbprint across them. If they didn't feel right, then I could check them further. I could do this with ease in low light quickly while moving the bill towards the cash register and maintaining top sales w/o losing time. I also had a black light specifically for checking bills next to the cash register and checking it would have taken all of 2-3 seconds to have a quick glance and see if the security features show up as they should.

One doesn't need a microscope and an hour to tell if a bill is real or not. 1-5 seconds, MAX.

Maybe some under the table things, also big ticket purchases like vehicles when paying in cash. But I'd guess that MOST proceeds of crime are all small bills.. 5's 10's 20's etc. When you see very large stacks of small bills it's often from the retail sale of drugs $10-20 worth at a time.

Yep yep. I've been a cashier for years and that's always annoying.

What's even more annoying? People who request $100 cashback on the pinpad without even asking if you have that in your drawer. More than once I've had people do that when I had barely $200 in the drawer.... and then when I'd give them all my 20's, they'd do another transaction and ask for another $100!
Have also had people try to get up to $500 out of my drawer in cashback.... as if we have thousands of $$ in our registers just for them.

I suspect a lot of the people who do that don't have a traditional bank account, but it's still annoying. The grocery store doesn't have endless $$$ to give as cashback.