All might be well and good with this one,
but......
there are some beauties out there. From reading ML's post, it sounds like maybe they have tightened up on what can, and cannot be purchased with them. A couple of years ago, the manager of the food store next to the booze store I work in, was trying to not take them from one of the section 8 moms next door.... she'd go in with the kid.... get a candy bar, give him a $20 coupon, and he'd give her the change, which she immediately bought cigs, and lottery tickets with... and.... with the 5 bucks change from that, come buy a half pint from me
he called the state, and they told him, if it's a food item, you have to take them, and give the change.
I do hope, that has been changed.