Overview
- Sophie Downing used a £10 gift card at the 200 Degrees branch in Nottingham’s Flying Horse Walk and received a receipt showing a balance exceeding £63 quadrillion.
- 200 Degrees said staff entered the gift card number where the value should go, creating a nonsensical figure on the receipt.
- The company confirmed the transaction was processed for the correct amounts and the real remaining balance on the card was small.
- Staff gave the erroneous receipt to the customer as a souvenir and then issued a corrected receipt reflecting the true value.
- Coverage highlighted the absurd scale of the number with comparisons to billionaire wealth and global GDP, though the amount was only a store voucher display and spendable only at the coffee chain.