Mum brands Smyths 'disgusting' after two-year-old son's pocket money rejected to buy toy

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A furious mother has slammed a popular toy store after they refused to take her two-year-old son's pocket money so he could buy his own toy.

Emily White recalled the 'disgusting' moment Smyths Toys Superstore knocked her toddler back to pay for his new toy airplane and tea set with the change he had saved up, the Mirror reports.The outraged mum says the store at Portland Retail Park in Mansfield in Nottingham informed her on November 24 that the cash payment would not be accepted either from her or the tot and it would need to be paid for by card or with a bank note.

The 26-year-old, from Sutton-in-Ashfield, said staff told her and her mother who were shopping together that there is a £10 limit for customers wanting to pay with coins.Even when Emily explained to staff it was her son's loose change from his money tin and she wanted to help him learn the value of money, she was told it was a store policy.

She also added she went to the trouble of separating all the coins out beforehand to make the cashier's life easier and the money mostly consisted of £1 coins and 50ps.