Do self-checkouts accept $2 bills? 

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.

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.

Looks like the machine is smarter than the average store manager.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

Love this! Thank you

Love this experiment! Excellent work Keep it up!

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…

Can confirm that 2$ bills work at Fred Meyers

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.

The intro to this video sounded like a dramatic Dateline special. LOL

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.

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.

$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

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.

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

I just found a couple of those in a old box of random stuff. I didnt even know they were still in circulation.

Never even knew I wanted to know. Can't wait

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?

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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...

A lot of POS machines say on them which bills they accept. Usually, 1, 5, 10, and 20.

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 RU-vid 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.

Wal- Marts in Tallahassee take 2 Dollar bills!

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

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.

Can we use the bills in canada

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 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.

Does target or rite aid accept them

You will be surprised to learn that US$2 bill is very common in Cambodia and Zimbabwe

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.

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

Wow, a bag of popcorn for $4.58 ? I can buy same sh.t for about €1.50 the highest here in Europe

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.

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

Did you check those serial numbers before using those bills???

Wal - Mart also takes 1 dollar coins

I am just curious if the self-checkout machines that accept $2 bills will also give them out in change to future customers?

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... 🤷🏻‍♀️

Are there any banks that might have rare two dollar bills?

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!! 🫶🫶😁😁😇😇👍👍👍

I wanted to buy a lottery ticket for a two dollar bill but the machine doesn’t take them 😢

Do five below

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 a dark bar $2 bills get mistaken for $5

The people who watch these videos are chads.

Can you get them at any bank or credit union?

i told you about this 2 years ago. Where is my 2 dollar bill>?

Is there a chance that I could find 2 dollar bills at a currency exchange in Europe?

can you pay with 2 dollar bill at dollar tree?

Has there ever been a blue ink 2 dollar bill

How do I submit a question for a video?

I wonder if they take $500 or $1,000 dollar bills.

Does restaurants accept $2 bills?

Do ATMs, Coinstar, or or other such similar things accept two dollar bills

Why would you keep going to walmarts? They all use the same machines....

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.

Can you try to deposit a $2 bill in your bank's ATM?

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.

How is a teenager supposed to buy a coke at the store if it doesn't take cash?

1:20 I can see you're a fan of lock picking lawyer!

The real question is can you fit a dollar bill in the slot

Hmmm are products taxed with the dollar or 2 dollar bill?????

Obviously, you don't use cash machines very often.

I should pay my taxes with $2 bills.

At Target, you should have torn a $2 bill in half instead of using that $1 bill.

*Society is definitely going cashless...*

Never use self checkout.

Printing some new 2$ bills with your new printer paper? Lol