Where I work we just get concerned when we start running low on $2.50 chips, a lot of people who are not collectors tend to save their $2.50 chips and cash them in all at once and our inventory on $2.50's is lowest dollar value of all the chips we have in our chip inventory - we usually have to re-order $2.50's about every 18 months, but we are not going to stop you at the door if you have some and take you to the back room and beat you up and ask for them back

So in my humble opinion nobody is going to stop you if you walk out with chips and make you go back in and cash them in. We have people that walk out all the time taking their $500 and $1000 chips to play later - after they eat or get some sleep, so we really don't worry about someone that has 100 $1 or $5 chips. If you are at a casino with a poker room and poker cage, buy a rack and nobody will question you at all, because poker cage cashier is doing 200-400 transactions like that on his/her shift, most employees in large busy casino operations have more to do than worry if someone is going to walk out with 100 or 200 chips.