Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:29:56 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Business owners worried about Plenty counterfeits
Business owners worried about counterfeits
BY CHRIS SAUNDERS : The Herald-Sun
Apr 19, 2009
Read the entire story at http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/chatham/13-1141666.cfm
PITTSBORO — Chris Pratt runs Virlie’s Grill, a downtown restaurant in historic Pittsboro where the meatloaf sandwich, a Friday special, is served with small-town familiarity. Pratt, like a number of business owners on Hillsboro Street, has heard the whispers about the Pittsboro PLENTY. For now, he said, Virlie’s is not ready to employ a new currency because of fears of counterfeiting.
“We would consider accepting it if it gets a little more mainstream,” Pratt said. “Everyone seems concerned about counterfeiting.”
Janice Escott, who is the proprietor of Unity Books and Stuff, also resists PLENTY partly because of the lack of established legitimacy to the new currency.
“First of all,” she said, “who says someone with a really good printer could not print them out?”