Do self-checkouts accept $2 bills?
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2023
- Will self-checkout stations allow you to insert a $2 bill? That's what the director of The Two Dollar Bill Documentary aims to find out in this video. He takes several 2 dollar bills and slides the currency into these automated cashiers... at Walmart, Target and even a local supermarket. See what happens!
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Taco Bell called the cops on my wife when she used a $2 bill. The cop showed up and openly laughed at the ignorance of the teenagers working and the idiot manager. She should have demanded free food for the inconvenience and dealing with the morons.
Recently a business called the cops because someone was buying something with many 2 dollar bills, the cops showed up and arrested and beat the guy.
Looks like the machine is smarter than the average store manager.
My wife is from Thailand and she lived in the US with me since 1980. She has always been fascinated by $2 bills because she gets them so rarely. I doubt she has ever spent one but she’s visited back home with a handful to pass out as souvenirs.
Awesome! Has she seen my full documentary? It's on this channel. If she's fascinated by the $2 bill, she'll learn a lot and will really appreciate the bill more. Here's the link: czcams.com/video/4b3TczZpC_Y/video.html
One of my favorites is when the cashier pulls out the counterfeit ink pen to check the $2 bill. Really would anyone ever take the time to fake a $2 bill especially when it’s crisp and uncirculated. Sometimes I think they just truly don’t know what it is so they use the ink pen.
That's exactly it. It's not just that you might be counterfeiting a $2, it's that you might be making up some new currency and trying to pass it off as legit. They use that ink pen like a security blanket.
Same happened to me once, after buying some decks of playing cards from Walmart.
In their defense, the texture was a little different due to moisture (possible exposure to strippers), and I was in a smaller isolated town, that once universally stayed at home to watch the fake Hatfield and McCoy tv show on History. We knew that show was fake, because one of the aggressive guys with a shotgun, was in real life a very friendly man we knew, who helped my father find cheap car insurance when money was tight.
i doubt most anyone who's gonna take the time to try and counterfit money ain't gonna bother with anything less than an $20
Would expect a cashier sees $2 bills here and then. I mean there're a billion out there.
@@gargoyle7863 You’d certainly hope so. Most stores that receive them as payment will send them directly back to the bank in there cash deposit though vs recirculating it in change. I just saw a video of a girl working at Wal Mart that refused to count someone that was paying in change. Looks like she couldn’t count that much.
I discovered that The Home Depot accepts them, but my local Kroger rejects them every time. The food kiosk at my workplace accepts them too, even has a $2 bill icon on it.
Interesting. I would like to have gone to a few more places for this video, but I think watching $2 bills get inserted into machine a dozen times at different places would have ultimately gotten boring (or redundant). Five times in this video seemed like enough.
I'm in a Kroger family. Both of my kids worked there and it is my wife's preferred grocery store. Has been a number of years since she has been at a Kroger self-checkout that does not take $2s.
@@kcclark9664 I’m a H.E.B. Customer in Central Texas and had positive experience. I was in Cransfill Gap, TX that loved getting $2.00 bills. I shared with the younger store clerks to watch for the Red Seal 1963 $2.00. The older store clerk agreed with me, yet I did find a worn $2.00 red seal bill. John has wonderful videos on the history of the different seal color of $2.00.
@@kcclark9664that’s weird, I work for Fred Meyer Which as you might know is owned by Kroger and my Self Checkout machines do take $2 bills.
Are talking about the cashiers or the Self checkouts? I work for Fred Meyer which as you might know Is part of the Kroger Family and my self checkout machines do take the $2 bills.
“6 dollars paid, another sixcess” nice
I’ve never been given a hard time before for using a two dollar bill to pay with. But I’ve heard of people having the cops called on them for it. I just blows my mind. What else blows my mind is the difference in price you paid at two different Walmarts for the same product. lol
$.62 change at one place and $1.42 at the other.
A lot of times, an individual store may have a sale on some items that another store doesn't. This may have been the case here.
The first location was a 6-pack 'Skinny Pack' The second location was just a large single bag.
I have had the $2 work in every supermarket and pharmacy with self checkout I have tried. (I travel weekly all over the country and always try at well over 60 different in the last decade.) I have even had it work in a few vending machines that only said $1 and $5 on the label (though I have seen a few machines that also list the $2 these days). I use a lot of "golden" dollar coins in vending machines also, though they hardly ever take my half dollars. Nice video as always! Keep up the great work.
Thanks! If I knew you were doing that, I would have had YOU shoot some video at all these machines and submitted it. :)
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Ha, I actually tried at two vending machines this morning while in Baton Rouge, La., but they did not work (It only said 1 and 5). It did take my "golden" dollars. Been a numismatist for years; my friends call me Mr. Weird Money. Ironically on my last visit to Japan I used a bunch of 2000 yen notes (worth about $20 bucks normally) as they are kind of Japan's version of the $2. One gets similar responses as in the States with twos.
nice, healthy choice with the Popcorn.
Love this! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment.
Love this experiment! Excellent work
Keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
You don't have to put each bill in 1 at a time. You can put a whole stack of bills in the Walmart bill acceptor and it will pull each bill 1 at a time on its own automatically. It saves time. The Walmart self checkout also gives cash back if you use big bills. You won't get all change. I've gotten $97 back from a $100 bill after buying something worth $3 . 4 $20 bills, a $10 bill, a $5 bill and 2 $1 bills.
The grocery store I work at, the self checkout machine accepts $2 bills as well as .50¢ and $1 coins.
These clips showing up in my feed remind me I need to frame my $2 sheet…
Yes you do.
I remember going to a Gamestop oncr and I saw in the register at that Gamestop that there were $2 bills by the $1 bills.
Some cashiers leave a space for a $2 bill. I covered all of this cash register stuff in this video: czcams.com/video/f76wmDQWZKo/video.html
Can confirm that 2$ bills work at Fred Meyers
😮 Wow awesome video man 😎 I used had $2 dollar bill I don’t know what happened 😒.
When you get 100 two dollar bills from the bank are the serial numbers consecutive also did you ever get any with all the same numbers?
The intro to this video sounded like a dramatic Dateline special. LOL
Yup. Made dramatic on purpose! Keeps people watching (I hope)
I think the death of paper money will be one step closer to the death of freedom. Not that I use cash a lot nowadays, but some people like to keep Uncle Sam out of their pockets stealing what they worked hard to get.
Great video! Today I tried using my $2 bills in the new touch-screen California lotto machines, but unfortunately neither of them would accept it.
I haven't seen those yet! I wish you would have taken video of that attempt. Go back and try again (I know it won't work) and have someone film it with their phone. If you shoot it vertically and can send it to me, maybe I'll use the footage in a short. You can email me by finding that address on the channel page / ABOUT
Thank you for the great videos! Does anyone know of a community or forum through which people discuss two dollar bills and a half dollars and dollar coins? Also it would be interesting to find out if there has been any consideration for additional types of unusual US currently such as maybe a five dollar coin.
On WheresGeorge.com, there is a full discussion forum on $2 bills. If you watch the full film on this channel, there's a segment on them toward the end. It's a tracking-$1-bill website, but the $2 has also taken off on it, to the point where the creator made a whole forum for people who love the $2 bill. There's even a list called Top Tom's (Google it) ranking who has posted the most $2 bills for tracking. The top two people were interviewed for the film and also appear in that segment.
When I went through a carwash, I paid for the $10 wash with a $20 bill and received 10 $1 coins back! I then would use them and $2 bills at various locations and never was questioned.
$2 bills make awesome tips in Ecuador that uses the American Dollar as its legal currency (same for Panama). In those economies it has the power of a $5 bill and the novelty always bring a smile to the server
I just found a couple of those in a old box of random stuff. I didnt even know they were still in circulation.
They sure are. Still being printed too
Never even knew I wanted to know. Can't wait
Back in the early 1970s when I had an Arco station we would get two or three $2.00 bills a month. These had been in circulation, not like now when you only see new bills. I'm afraid the $10.00 bill is on it's way out. The stores around where I live do not even have them in the cash drawer.
I've noticed the self checkouts often give me multiple $5 bills instead of using a $10 bill for my change.
Wow, a bag of popcorn for $4.58 ? I can buy same sh.t for about €1.50 the highest here in Europe
now try using a 1oz gold eagle with s face value of 50$ to purchase groceries and see if they accept it. or try a 1/10 ounce if you don’t want to risk losing lots of money
Depends on how thorough they were during set-up of the check-out machines. If they teach the machine to read the 2 dollar bills, like they do with other denominations, it'll read it just fine.
A lot of POS machines say on them which bills they accept. Usually, 1, 5, 10, and 20.
I learn something everyday.
I've seen Walmart self-checkouts before that don't take cash as well. Also in a lot of self-checkout machines you can put multiple bills in at the same time, just like at an ATM.
I put two $2 bills into a Walmart machine at the same time the first time I filmed for this video; it accepted them as one bill. Had I not been crooked filming it, I probably would have included the shot here. But either way, I wasn't going to put multiple bills in the machine at the same time again. Thus, what you see here is me always putting in one bill at a time!
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Oh wow! I remember a similar thing happening to you in the ATM video. I think I'll be very wary of using multiple bills in these machines from now on.
Exactly, yes! I didn't learn my lesson, I guess. Once the machine takes the first one, it's anticlimactic as to what will happen with the others, but at the same time, I'm not going to insert a cluster of $2s and lose them all because the machine thought it was one bill. The viewers just have to watch me do them one at a time in any and all future similar videos. :)
Does target or rite aid accept them
I'm surprised it worked, if you have a 100 dollar bill it rejects the older ones. I do have a question for you. How do you buy a federal reserve brick of $2.00 bills? I'm interested in doing that. But my bank acted like they never heard of that.
Can we use the bills in canada
Great video! I got my hands on a 2 dollar bill in December, at an exchange center. My country is in the balkans and Eastern Europe, and I don't know how many are here, probably very few...
Wow! Cool that you got one there. Thanks for sharing. Comment again if you ever get another one!
Wal- Marts in Tallahassee take 2 Dollar bills!
I can confirm that my local Target's self checkout doesn't like the $2 bill's coin counterpart: it rejected my half-dollar, even though the slot was big enough for it.
That's interesting - I never thought to use coins like half or silver dollars in those. Of course, this IS a $2 bill channel. But thanks for the info! I may just have to try that on my own time.
Surprised the Walmart you're at accepts cash still! In my area, self checkout is card only, and most human operated checkout lines are card-only too. I haven't really used cash outside of smaller concert venues in a decade, though with the surge of things like Venmo, that will likely fill the void like merch stands at small concert venues
Hopefully you watched til the end, and the one supermarket that didn't take cash. I think we are definitely headed in that direction overall.
I live in New jersey, and in 2019, it was ruled to be illegal for any brick and mortar business in the state to not accept cash, so this concept seems foreign to me lol. even before the ruling, there were very few places I'd ran across that didn't accept cash.
Many decades ago, in my hometown, one of the major employers in town would pay their employees’ yearly bonuses in two dollar bills. So as the two dollar bills circulated through the community everyone could see the economic effect their bonuses had on the community.
I have heard this story before and I looked it up and it wasn't true but it's possible that the employer I was told about was not the one you are talking about. Could you say what is your hometown? Also it could be that it was just many decades ago... Do people pay their employees in cash these days?
Interesting and from what I can see the self-checkout machines do list the following $1 George Washington two-dollar bill Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln $5 Alexander Hamilton $10 bill $20 Andrew Jackson president Grant 50 Benjamin Franklin $100. I wonder if the machines will recognize a 500 dollar bill William McKinley
I accepted the challenge on using $2.00 bills Today on Friday the 13th! 1st place was an automated car wash in Early, TX sadly the worn out mom and pop vending machine HAD rejected the crisp new $2.00 bill several times.. REFUSED!! 2nd Place San Saba,TX Dairy Queen burger place.. Managers enjoying a break.. I ordered a Hunger Buster with cheese, fries and drink combo. $15+ dollars so, I paid $16.00 dollars in $2.00 bills.. (Results were perplexing because the lady, freaked out, and ran to the back office to get a “cash counterfeit marker” then scrutinized every $2.00 bill I used to pay for the meal to go.. She was rather silently-rude, yet all of the $2.00 bills checked out!! There are towns in Western parts of Texas and Central Texas that scrutinized $2.00 bills. I’m ashamed of my fellow Texans, but that’s ok! The only positive experience was a Kwik Kar oil change place in Brownwood, TX where I brought my own oil and filter. $54.00 oil change and I used my $2.00 bills to pay. The oil-tech-clerk was happy to see me pay with $2.00 bills! I surmise 52% is FOR the use of $2.00 bills and 48% AGAINST the use of $2.00 bills.. State Funded facilities and the vending machines assigned, are Against the use of $2.00 bills due to antiquated regulations and equipment.. Sadly after explaining I wanted to video document my experience at the San Saba, TX Dairy Queen, the manager looked at me alarmed and quietly asked me to leave. My 45 years experience with fellow Texans are simply private people and do not want to be recorded. Unless they usually get paid to advertise and share on CZcams Channel. State Facilities are not accepting of being recorded as they can use legal action. Privacy Laws? I dunno. I’m not taking the risk.
You will be surprised to learn that US$2 bill is very common in Cambodia and Zimbabwe
I am surprised to learn that! Thanks for sharing.
I am just curious if the self-checkout machines that accept $2 bills will also give them out in change to future customers?
Most likely no. These machines give out coins most of the time, but in the few instances where cash is necessary, it's singles. Another denomination takes up more space and would have to be programmed, even though it's more practical.
Didn’t know ATM passed out 2 dollar bills. I knew they could put out the denomination you ask for but in my experience you have to have the bank manager order the bills and then call you. Thx
They don't pass them out. They accept them as deposits (most of the the time). Big difference! You want to get $2 bills, you definitely have to go inside the bank.
I accidentally put a 2 dollar bill in a slot machine once. It took it but it didn't give me credit for it. I had to have the slot tech open up the machine to get my bill back. So be careful.
Wow. If you watch the full documentary on this channel, you'll see a $2 bveing tried in a slot maching and being rejected.
Did you check those serial numbers before using those bills???
I believe I did.
Can you get them at any bank or credit union?
I wouldn't say "any" bank or credit union, although logic says you should. Because they're not in high demand, banks don't carry them often. Some do. Even if yours doesn't, you can ask them to order some for you, and then they'll have whatever you requested in about a week's time.
Us programmers and engineers know our stuff. So this obviously works.
Just saw Steve Wozniak on a SteveO video with a tablet with sheets of four $2 bills each.... Woz said they were legal tender 😳🤯😬 He seemed serious... 🤷🏻♀️
Oh, and I expected the check outs to accept them just fine. 😁🤑😂
As will often happen with highly intelligent individuals, he didn't explain it super clearly. The print shop he goes to doesn't actually print the bills he uses, he gets uncut sheets from the Mint (anyone can buy them) and has the print shop make them into notepads.
They are legal tender, but I don't think anyone would accept them in a sheet, even if it were just 4 bills. Great question as to whether the self checkout machine would take 4 bills in one sheet. I know I put two bills in a self checkout machine for this video and it counted it as one, which is why I inserted every bill one at a time in the footage I used here.
@@Rubycon99 well Bun of a Sitch😒 I thought The Woz had lost his marbles. Thanx for the reply👍🏻😁
Yes, self-checkout machines WILL accept 2 dollar bills, Target is a great example where their self-checkout machines can and will accept 2’s as payment
I guess there's no reason to watch?? There's actually a machine in this video that doesn't... you may want to see whose, and why.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Interesting, I didn’t know that there were cashless self-checkout machines
Not all self checkouts take $2.00 bills. It depends on the store and how they set up their machines. A lot of self checkouts, vending machines and self pay kiosks say "accepts $1, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100. Some don't accept bills larger than $20.
Are there any banks that might have rare two dollar bills?
If you get lucky and pull an old red seal in a withdrawal like I've done a few times, no. They don't keep them to sell. You can find a local coin & currency dealer for those. I do have some in an online store, on Etsy, and through my Whatnot account if you're looking for something in particular. Message me at john@2dollarbillmovie.com if you'd like.
Another interesting video. I was actually surprised that WalMart and Target self check out accepted $2.00 bills. I have a question for you. Will slot machines accept $2.00 bills? Maybe I can win another $2.00 bill for this question.
In the full documentary on this channel, there was a moment where I tried to use one in a slot machine and it was rejected. It was a quick montage of $2s being rejected in a number of machines, and there was at least one other slot machine in there. So my answer would be no. But I can certainly run down to Hard Rock one day and try a bunch more. Videos like this seem to do pretty well; the one where I test $2 bills in ATM machines is one of the more watched videos I've put up recently.
Wal - Mart also takes 1 dollar coins
Do five below
I’m a big $2.00 spending machine myself. I made a few friends spending $2.00 bills. The young cashier’s go nicely nuts yet say: “I’m buying these!!” 😅 I’d say 92% positive experience in Texas. Great video John!! 🫶🫶😁😁😇😇👍👍👍
Thanks! Good to hear from you. Bring someone with you when you spend $2 bills. Have them take some video of the exchange (phone turned horizontal). Maybe I could use it in a future video!
Is there a chance that I could find 2 dollar bills at a currency exchange in Europe?
Yes! Someone else just commented on this video that they got one. They said it was the first time. But I guess it's possible. Scroll the comments here and see if you can find it - maybe you can reach out through CZcams.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary I will! Love the vids!
I wanted to buy a lottery ticket for a two dollar bill but the machine doesn’t take them 😢
I think I tried that once myself - I may have even filmed it but I haven't used it in a video yet. There are lots more machines I can make videos with; they work as short, themed videos instead of one long, drawn-out video where I hit every type of machine. More of these to come!
can you pay with 2 dollar bill at dollar tree?
Probably! I'll probably try it out in a future video... been wanting to make one to see what you can still buy for $2 nowadays, and the Dollar Tree would be a good place to look.
How do I submit a question for a video?
Right here in the comments.
Click on the channel page and click on the Community tab. Scroll down to the question where I ask people to submit (There's an example on the screen next to me in this video). That said, I see comments almost everywhere, so if you ask one, I'll probably see it and will save it if I think it has possibilities for a video.
I wonder if they take $500 or $1,000 dollar bills.
My suggestion. Don't try it.
Here's a story about a 2 dollar bill: One day, my friend Andy had a daughter who was struggling with her heart. She decided to try a transplant and of course her and Andy had to wait. Then he found a 2 dollar bill that was blowing around, and that night that he found the 2 dollar bill she was in for a transplant so Andy will keep his bill forever in his pocket.
In a dark bar $2 bills get mistaken for $5
Only on the dyslexic.
The people who watch these videos are chads.
Didn't you watch??
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Chad isn't an insult these days, (look up the gigachad meme) he's saying the people who watch these videos are cool.
Why would you keep going to walmarts? They all use the same machines....
As I said in the video, I went to a few just to avoid the possibility of the first machine accepting $2 bills being a one-off. Since you say they all are the same, then this was the obvious result. But going to more than one proves it to those who don't know as much as you do.
I should pay my taxes with $2 bills.
I don't think the IRS accepts cash
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary probably for good reason 😆. I can totally see myself paying with pennies or dimes even if they did. Least I could do for all the money they steal from me.
i told you about this 2 years ago. Where is my 2 dollar bill>?
Where did you post your question? Because as you can see from this video, two other people had the same question, which I bookmarked until I was ready to make this video. I'm sorry if I missed yours because I get a lot of comments and suggestions, but if I don't see it in the section where I request questions, I can't attribute the question to you.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary well, i posted it 2 years ago and better! Told you about the Tallahassee bus system taking them also
I kinda remember the Tallahassee post! If I get ever up there, I'll film something, but again, I apologize for missing your self checkout post.
Has there ever been a blue ink 2 dollar bill
You mean like this? czcams.com/video/M5SbNsDwdC4/video.html
Does restaurants accept $2 bills?
Do ATMs, Coinstar, or or other such similar things accept two dollar bills
ATMs: that video was posted in July 2021: czcams.com/video/g0QO5USA4XI/video.html
1:20 I can see you're a fan of lock picking lawyer!
I can't figure out what you're referring to (seriously). What do you mean?
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary oh no, sorry! When a lock is especially easy to open without a key, he'll open it a second time, while saying what has become his catch-phrase, "to show that it was not a fluke".
Ahh, gotcha. The use of the phrase a second time was intentional, as a callback to the first one. But if that makes me a lock picking lawyer, so be it!
Can you try to deposit a $2 bill in your bank's ATM?
I just went through your videos & found you had tried this & I had already watched a while ago & liked the video.
Yes... I was going to say to look for the one on this channel! Glad you found it.
Taco bell is at it again. Manager of a local store refused my 2! The kid at the drive up window, broke out in tears. After I told her the manager lied and said the bank would NOT accept them! I said that was a lie since I just got them at the bank! What do I do with this manager. I have no issues anywhere else since the smart phones came out.
Sounds like the best thing to do with this guy is just keep your $2s away from his store. Not worth the hassle. One idea though: you can pay with nickels and dimes instead! When he complains about it, tell him, "you wouldn't accept my $2 bills, so I have to pay with my change. It's all I have!"
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary I'll have to think about this. I try to call corporate to report the store. They laid off people to take your calls. And have not returned my call.
I’m going to bet the manager was over thinking (under thinking). I’m hoping he’d google it and find out he’s in the wrong
How is a teenager supposed to buy a coke at the store if it doesn't take cash?
It just doesn't take $2 bills.
Obviously, you don't use cash machines very often.
This was made for entertainment/education sake, so you really can't draw conclusions about what I do and don't do. :) I do use cash machines, but not always with $2 bills. I like to spend those with actual humans so I get a reaction.
Hmmm are products taxed with the dollar or 2 dollar bill?????
Products that need to be taxed are taxed regardless of how you pay for them.
The real question is can you fit a dollar bill in the slot
I just used cash at a Wal-Mart self-checkout for the first time recently & was surprised at how aggressively it took it in when I was trying to center it. The ATM at my bank takes cash deposits much more gently.
Yeah, all the Walmart machines in this video took bills rather aggressively once they got their clams on it, as you can see.
At Target, you should have torn a $2 bill in half instead of using that $1 bill.
That would have been funny. I still should have used two $2 bills and taken the dollar bill as part of my change, but I was trying to do a quick transaction because of a line and some eagle-eyed employees watching me.
*Society is definitely going cashless...*
Did you watch til the end of the video? I mentioned that and linked to an "End of Cash" video. But here it is: czcams.com/video/uB2ttEjY89o/video.html
Never use self checkout.
Printing some new 2$ bills with your new printer paper? Lol
Shhhh. Don't tell anyone.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary hahah