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

[vulcan42]

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

[THECORBYLOON]

"To enable banks to process your coins during the co-circulation period  please return your old and new £1 coins in separate bags.  For most companies, who make £20 deposits, that will mean separating the old and new coins in the usual clear bags. If you are depositing coins in bulk (£500) the round £1 coins should be in red bags and the new 12-sided £1 coins in purple ones. Your bank can advise you."

[jno]

Hammersmith are being slow ... tell me about it. Shopkeepers are tearing their hair.

[Buenchico]

>>> 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

The announcement that the new coins were to be introduced was made on 19/03/14. The new coins came into circulation on 28/03/17. That's not exactly 'overnight'!

[Cloverjo]

I remember over our closed season (Nov til Feb) in the amusement arcade, our engineers were changing mechanisms in the machines to accept the new pound coins. It definitely wasn't overnight.

The new coins were warned about, to the people who needed to know, way before March 2017. Months before that.