A New York man claims that a local grocery chain refused to accept his $2 bills — with young cashiers believing the unusual, but legal, notes to be counterfeit, he claims in a Facebook post.
Richard Scott Steger, of Wurtsboro, NY, was shopping at an Aldi grocery store in Sullivan County on Monday and tried to settle his bill with cash — including some $2 notes, according to a Facebook post.
Then, not one — but two young cashiers insisted that the bills were counterfeit without even making an effort to check them.
“I was in Aldi’s this morning in Monticello… I wanted to pay with some $2 bills… the young guy refused to accept them and insisted they were counterfeit,” Steger said in a post on the group “Uncensored Sullivan County New York News and Politics.”
Steger insisted that the young man check the bill, but was met with arrogant and aggressive ignorance.
“He showed me on [the bills] that where it says “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL ETC”… that means they are fake,” Steger says the dope told him.
The phrase in question is, “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE,” which appears within the border on one side of the two-dollar bill and which clearly states their legality.
The cashier then brought the bills to one of his young female coworkers.
She asked the young man if he checked the bills with the counterfeit markers used at grocery stores.
“He whispered ‘no, they’re fake.’ So, without even checking them, she rudely and arrogantly told me, ‘We’re not accepting them!,’” Steger wrote in the post.
“Then she gave me the ‘ef you have a nice day smile to leave… if you know what I mean,” the post read.
“Absolutely disgusting and unprofessional treatment to a regular customer!,” Steger concluded.
Reps for Aldi did not respond to The Post’s request for comment at the time of publication.
The $2 bill features a portrait of third president Thomas Jefferson on one side and an engraving of John Trumbull’s painting “Declaration of Independence.”
Sometimes called “toms” or “deuces,” the $2 bill was first printed in 1862, and have appeared in their current design since 1976 — the year of the Bicentennial.
In the 20th century, two-dollar notes had a bad reputation — being associated with voter fraud, prostitution and gambling.
There are currently 1.2 billion $2 bills in circulation, according to Titlemax.
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