Does anyone remember?

[Tiffany]

@Harbal

I don’t think I had any notion of where it went. I just knew it came back with the change; I just sort of accepted it without wondering how or why.

I was a very nosy child.

[Longdogs]

@Tiffany

They had a tub of broken biscuits by the counter too & Mum would sometimes buy them. Certainly not hygienic now.

I remember those. they were always those ones with the coloured icing.

[Meg]

I think many stores in large towns used to have cash ‘shoots’, it saved having to have tills all over the place and staff handling cash.
I used to find them fascinating when I was a child

[Amac]

I remember that in a men’s clothes shop in my home town in the 50s and 60s. Because the shop was on a corner and had a reflective window it was also a favourite place for people to do the Harry Worth splits (if you remember that from the intro to his show). I had a couple of accidental slaps from kids trying it without checking if there was somebody behind them…

[d00d]

@Longdogs

I’m sure our Tesco’s still used those up until a few years ago (SE). I thought it was an excellent way of moving money out of the till and therefore reducing any chance of theft.

Of course, accidents did happen occasionally. I remember one day, as the tube was moving up the pipe, the screws came loose and the pod went flying across the store, hitting an elderly man in the cobblers. He was ok though, just having a new heel put on his shoe.

I once saw in a petrol station cash removed from the till, put in a tube, put in a hole in the floor.

[Mags]

I remember going to a shop and asking for a bag of broken wafers for one penny.

[d00d]

I remember the cash railways back in the 60s in Gloucester’s top department store, Bon Mache (no relation to a recent chain with the same name).

This is the system they used: Sturtevant cash carriers

It says so here: Cash carriers - locations in Gloucestershire

[Omah]

My last (and best) job of the day as a Millets “boy” was to provide an escort for the very pretty cashier’s assistant who carried one of these:

stuffed full of the day’s takings from the pneumatic tubes and “disguised” in a paper bag to put in one of these:

It was a bit scary going but we’d share a “fag” on the way back …

[Longdogs]

@Mags

I remember going to a shop and asking for a bag of broken wafers for one penny.

That was Specsavers, Mags and they threw you out.

[Mags]

@Longdogs

That was Specsavers, Mags and they threw you out.

[warleyron]

@d00d

I once saw in a petrol station cash removed from the till, put in a tube, put in a hole in the floor.

I used to have to do that when I first came down to live in London. When we had a lot of notes in the till we’d count most of them out, put them and a note with the value in the tube and post it.

[Tiffany]

@Longdogs

I’m sure our Tesco’s still used those up until a few years ago (SE). I thought it was an excellent way of moving money out of the till and therefore reducing any chance of theft.

Of course, accidents did happen occasionally. I remember one day, as the tube was moving up the pipe, the screws came loose and the pod went flying across the store, hitting an elderly man in the cobblers. He was ok though, just having a new heel put on his shoe.

Our Tesco still has one, noticed it today while waiting to buy my tobacco. The cashier was putting cash into tubes & putting them into a tube I’d never noticed before on the wall, it goes up to the office & then gets put in a safe I guess. I mentioned it to her.It doesn’t come back though, one way only. This was the tobacco & enquiries desk area, the other tills give the money to a supervisor who them must give it to that desk area, I’ve seen them doing that. Fancy me never noticing that before.:surprised::surprised:

[Longdogs]

@Tiffany

Our Tesco still has one, noticed it today while waiting to buy my tobacco. The cashier was putting cash into tubes & putting them into a tube I’d never noticed before on the wall, it goes up to the office & then gets put in a safe I guess. I mentioned it to her.It doesn’t come back though, one way only. This was the tobacco & enquiries desk area, the other tills give the money to a supervisor who them must give it to that desk area, I’ve seen them doing that. Fancy me never noticing that before.:surprised::surprised:

Just imagine someone upstairs sitting over the hole while doing their shoelace up.

[Tiffany]

@Longdogs

Just imagine someone upstairs sitting over the hole while doing their shoelace up.

Bum tube, heavy too, though I think she was only putting notes in it.