[jambutty]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

Simple answer is no because we have retailers who will quite happily abuse any system in this country just as much as the person receiving the vouchers. A voucher is money in the till, they don't care what it is for.

My experience is that supermarkets will only accept vouchers for the goods that they are intended for so buying fags and booze with them is a no, no in supermarkets.

Of course there is nothing to stop a voucher being sold to a neighbour who will then use them for the purpose that they were intended for. And as you point out there are smaller retailers who see the voucher as cash in the till and will accept them for any goods. But how many of them have decent range of fruit and veg?

If I remember correctly many years ago when child allownace was paid via a book at the post office, people had to produce the book to use the milk token to get their child’s free milk.