The earlier comment about banks returning the notes to Scotland is perhaps pertinent - where a small business does its banking at a small branch of a local building society, for instance, they might have more trouble disposing of them.
One thing that we don’t see much of in Scotland is the Scottish Five Pound Note. It is quite common to be offered the English Five Pound Note in change, and just as frequently to get a handful of 6-9 pound coins and an apology. Just occasionally you get a Scottish Five Pound Note. My WAG is that it is expensive to produce and continually replace the Fiver and so the Scottish banks have cut back on production.
We really didn’t need the £2 coin- it would have made more sense to have a coin fiver!
Thanks - I never knew that.
This may be a bit off topic, but about 80% of our turnover is from credit cards, although that still leaves a substantial amount of cash. When we’re stocking tills with change, because the majority of prices end in 99p, we get through huge amounts of pennies and pounds. We generally don’t hold - and don’t get given - £2 coins. What we hold in change is governed by demand (obviously) and practicality: counting money takes up a lot of working hours. The more it can be reduced, the better.