Gen Z Cashiers Can't Recognize Real Cash, Think They're 'Counterfeit'

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Gen Z Cashiers Can't Recognize Real Cash, Think They're 'Counterfeit'
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Assistant manager Sam told Newsweek it's a 'digital world,' but he had to speak 'sternly' to the teens about their mistake.

An assistant manager was left frustrated when his Gen Z coworkers wrongly declared a customer's money as fake.Sam, 22, who gave his first name only, is an assistant manager at a frozen yogurt shop in Florida and recently shared a frustrating work moment with Reddit's r/mildlyinfuriating sub.In a post shared on December 15 with 15,000 upvotes, Sam wrote via his account u/PhillipEngMBTA: 'These bills confiscated by teen cashiers and deemed 'counterfeit.

''Another reason is that we just should've shown the kids what all bills people might pay with would look like since currency has changed in design a few times over the last 30 years.'The younger portion of Gen Z, the generation born between 1997 and 2012, grew up with digital payments and cashless transactions, and a 2024 Talker Research poll found that almost 30 percent of Gen Z respondents avoided carrying cash as they feared it could be stolen.

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