Do You Think These Companies Will Stay In Business For Very Long?

[vulcan42]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41073689

[Mamyalynne]

I can't answer your question, but you think they'd be a bit more precise when returning their coins.

[jim360]

No company lasts for long if it doesn't know how to change.

[Mamyalynne]

Nice :-)

[albaqwerty]

if the new £1's weigh the same as the old, maybe these companies sort by weight and not actually scoop and bag from a counter?

[Mamyalynne]

If so then they are hoping someone else will do their sorting for them and that lazy - they know they need separating out, so do it.

[Mamyalynne]

* that's lazy

[albaqwerty]

agreed mamya. lazy way to count cash.

[Mamyalynne]

In this case yes, a good quick way to count cash normally but not if part of it needs returning separately.

[youngmafbog]

Surely its no skin off the companies nose?

They get £ in the account no matter what they send in?

[Samuraisan]

Mmm, not very efficient are they. One question , do all the supermarket trollies, vending machines etc. have to be adapted ? If so, I wonder who got THAT contract.

[albaqwerty]

lidl trolleys take round, new and tokens.
Think they must have been ahead of the game!

[jazzyjen]

I expect Lidl trolleys were designed for the Euro coin.

[wolf63]

I was counting out pound coins in Oxfam earlier - there are still loads of the old ones in circulation. The new ones don't fit easily into the trolleys in Tesco - you have to fight to get it in the slot.

[Gromit]

The coins weigh the same and the companies will be paid £1 for whatever they send back.

So there is no motivation for the companies to waste money sorting the new from the old.

Just a badly thought out replacement scheme, and you should blame the BOE, not hard working firms trying to comply with idiotic bureaucrats when they just want to generate a profit.

[jno]

as of a week ago, Hammersmith still hadn't updated their parking machines, so I still need old coins when I go to the dentist. The local Tesco have only just got it sorted. I suppose it was all rather sprung on them overnight.

[THECORBYLOON]

The new coins are larger in size but lighter than the round pounds.

[Huderon]

Gromit, the new coins weigh less than the old ones and I doubt that banks would accept bags holding a mix of the old and new coins. For sure the cash and carry I go to every week won't accept mixed bags like that.

[Huderon]

jno, Hammersmith are being very slow then. Parking meters I use in Croydon, Wimbledon, Sutton and East Sheen all accept the new pound coins.

[THECORBYLOON]

The old and new coins are mentioned to go in differently coloured bags so they can be differentiated. If it were me, I'd be sending the money back and telling the businesses to get it right or face a surcharge.

[Cloverjo]

I work in an amusement arcade, and we (the staff) haven't been told to separate the old £1 coins from the new. If customers ask for, say, 10 pound coins, we just pick up a mix of whatever we lay our hands on in the drawer.
It seems we should start sorting, but the management haven't said anything about it yet.