More dollar denominations of money bills.

Yeah, we do. But it doesn't see a terribly large circulation, as the things most people would need a fifty to pay for you'd just use a debit/credit card on nowadays. I work as a cashier, and I'd say I see one maybe one every few weeks.

I see $50s and $100s daily at my job... and more of them around the 1st and 15th of the month, when so many people get paid...
 
I see $50s and $100s daily at my job... and more of them around the 1st and 15th of the month, when so many people get paid...

Where do you work? I'm at a pizza joint, so our individual purchases rarely exceed $20-$25, might that have something to do with it?
 
For what it's worth, $1000 bills (Grover Cleveland on the obverse) and $500 bills (William McKinley on the obverse) were in general circulation until 1969, when they were withdrawn by Nixon's executive order.

For this reason alone we should bring them back. ;)

But seriously, I don't think a variety of new denominations (other than a $500 and a $1000) would be useful. What would be helpful is stopping production of pennies (as they cost more than they are worth, literally) and $1 and $2 bills, increasing production of $1 (and perhaps $2) coins, and making stores actually take $50s and $100s (it's annoying as hell when that's all you've got and you get a hard time from some fool behind the counter).
 
Where do you work? I'm at a pizza joint, so our individual purchases rarely exceed $20-$25, might that have something to do with it?

I work at a Wendys, so our average orders are smaller than yours. But our place is attached to a big gas station/truck stop, so we tend to get a lot more travelers than your average Wendys, and travelers tend to carry big bills a lot...
 
Keep the big bills

I see 50's and hundreds daily--in quantity--at Sears. And the comment "as the things most people would need a fifty to pay for you'd just use a debit/credit card on nowadays" tells me why we NEED the big bills to stay around--the last thing we need is to encourage more plastic!
 
I see 50's and hundreds daily--in quantity--at Sears. And the comment "as the things most people would need a fifty to pay for you'd just use a debit/credit card on nowadays" tells me why we NEED the big bills to stay around--the last thing we need is to encourage more plastic!

uh... you know what a debit card is, right? Takes money out of your checking account? Not debt, you're spending money you already have? Or do you have something against cards besides the debt thing?
 
I work at a Wendys, so our average orders are smaller than yours. But our place is attached to a big gas station/truck stop, so we tend to get a lot more travelers than your average Wendys, and travelers tend to carry big bills a lot...

Ah, that might do it. We're more in town.
 
For what it's worth, $1000 bills (Grover Cleveland on the obverse) and $500 bills (William McKinley on the obverse) were in general circulation until 1969, when they were withdrawn by Nixon's executive order.

:) I remember an old episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show involving $500 bills. The newscaster (Ted?) was bad about borrowing money and never paying it back. He carried $500 bills so that if someone asked him to pay back owed money, he'd whip out a bill and say "Got change for a $500?" And really, how many people would? So, at the end of the show, Murray asked him to pay back $2, Ted pulled out his $500, and Murray says, "Yes, I do!", and pulls out a huge bag with $500 in nickels...
 
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