Tesco refusing £50?!

[frankiesamson]

Is Tesco really legally allowed to refuse £50 notes? It seems to me if we allow such huge chains to refuse any legal tender they wish, it isn't good for society in so many ways..

I have just been to Tesco to buy £46 worth of shopping, I was v organised, brought a £50 note with me to pay for it, and they refused on the basis that they don't have any staff to open a til, and only have the self payment machines available, which don't take £50 notes. They also said they can't give me change for a £50 note to enable me to use the self payment machine.

I felt like saying "I have a £50 note, if you can't take it, that's your problem! "

Having spent almost an hour getting my shopping, i'm now faced with having to leave it behind and drive home which is around 35 min round trip!

There are so many rules and regulations the average joe has to contend with in the UK and it often feels like the odds are against the small person, please someone tell me it isn't legal for these big stores to refuse legal tender?!

Zombie thread! Resurrected to give exactly the same advice that at least 20 other posted back in September. I'm guessing the OP has now paid for her groceries in some other way...

Nevertheless my favourite piece of legal advice must be 'Well that's what they said in a sitcom'

Zombie thread!
Sorry I didn't even notice.

I couldn't sleep and I started having a flick through the forums on MN and I must have flicked far further back than I thought.

I don’t know why TBOE doesn’t just do away with fifty pound notes. They are pretty rare anyway and so few shops are prepared to take them that I don’t know what the point is. When even one pound coins have had to be redesigned to prevent counterfeits who is gong to tryst a fifty? 🤔

I don’t know why TBOE doesn’t just do away with fifty pound notes
Not much chance of them doing away with them now they have announced the new polymer £50 note.

www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/50-pound-note