Originally Posted by
leicanthrope
On the other hand, so few people pay in cash for large purchases these days that's it's likely to raise some flags in the merchant's mind as far as the risk of counterfeits go.
The latest iteration of US currency is the most difficult to counterfeit in history.
That being said merchants are provided with technology to detect counterfeits by their bank.
Hand a register operator a $100 bill for a purchase and watch what they do before putting it in the till if you are interested.
Checks are a much greater fraud risk.
Retail ain't easy.....
-Bandera