In Reply to: Accepted at shops.. posted by Mic on Thursday, 4. December 2008 at 08:17 Bali Time:
shops as the shopkeepers can bank them.
Rest assured that once they are no longer accepted by banks, then shopkeepers won't use them and we won't get them.
It took years for the previous old notes to be removed from the system. Which is why they've set these dates years in advance.