On a recent trip to France I noticed that most till receipts, restaurant bills etc still show the total in francs underneath the euro total. It’s, what, four and a half years since the franc coins and notes were finally retired.
I don’t remember seeing the old currencies still listed like this in Italy or Spain, which are the other most recent Eurozone countries I’ve visited.
Is France the lone holdout here, or do other countries still do this?
In Spain, yes for most places. It depends on whether the location has changed the tills again since they had to do so for the move to the Euro. Why spend money on a new till (or new software) just to take out the so many pesetas, when having it isn’t against the law and the old one works just fine?
I still think in “kilos” (million pesetas) when it’s huge amounts like the price for a car or a house. Many older people still talk, not just in pesetas, but sometimes in perras chicas - that’s a coin that has been out of circulation for over 50 years!
I was in Italy last year and they had the lire equivalent on my supermarket receipt too.
Ireland appears completely to have abandoned the old currency, though I wonder if that’s because it was easier to get one’s head around: there was a 1.2:1 correlation between the currencies rather than a 1,xxx:1.
Some shops in Germany still list DM and Euro prices, and some (older) people still convert to DM when talking about prices.
I seen dual pricing on a few receipts but on the whole as jjimm says everything is just in €’s
I haven’t seen any shop actually give dual pricing on labels, signs etc. for a few years now.
I just looked at the 8 receipts that I happened to have in my wallet - none of them had a Deutsche Mark (DM) equivalent listed. I do recollect occasionally seeing receipts quoting a DM equivalent. but much less so than in 2002. It seems that only businesses/cash registers that got their last software update in the run-up to the 1 Jan 2002 change still print a DM equivalent.
For a lot of people, their sense of a fair/equitable price is still calibrated in DM, though: “Fifty cents - why, that’s one Mark - they are robbing us!”
As you noted, in France, mostly everything sent or handed out to an individual (as opposed to companies) has on it the francs equivalent : credit card receipts, phone bills, bank statements, you name it (there’s no double labelling in shops, though).
Ditto last month 
Nope just in Euros here…
Thirding this. I spent two months in Ireland and, until I looked it up out of curiosity, I couldn’t have even told you what the prior currency was: never once saw a single reference to it.
Think I’ve mentioned this before, but in 2002 I was in Guadeloupe - the French Caribbean island - just after the euro changeover. I had a 100 euro traveller’s cheque. At the hotel reception I tried to cash it. The dude was thrown into a loupe. He got a calculator out, converted the euro amount into francs, then converted the francs back to euro before he knew how much to pay me. :smack: And the beauty was that, due to a rounding error, I made a profit!