refusing to accept cash
November 13th, 2019 at 3:54:03 AM permalink | |
Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4256 |
Well SF and Philadelphia and two large examples of cashless ban cities. |
November 13th, 2019 at 11:04:25 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | At Walmart there are always mostly card only self checkout registers. There are always minorities waiting for the ones that accept cash. Never seen a white person in that line. I haven't used cash anywhere but the casino in a decade. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 13th, 2019 at 11:15:35 AM permalink | |
Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4256 |
My local Walmart self checkout machines accept cash and gives exact change. |
November 13th, 2019 at 11:25:00 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
If you look closely, they all don't accept cash, just a few of them do. There's no point in having lots of cash machines when 90% pay with a card. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 13th, 2019 at 11:57:20 AM permalink | |
Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4256 |
All 6 of the self checkouts at mine have cash and change abilities. Maybe, I should have been more specific, it's a Walmart Neighborhood Market, which is essentially a Walmart grocery store (not a full sized walmart). I do not frequent the Regular Walmart (have not visited in a while), so I am not sure the ratio of cash self checkout machines. |
November 13th, 2019 at 1:16:47 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Never heard of it. Mine is a Supercenter. Every one I've been in has card only machines and a couple that take cash. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 13th, 2019 at 1:45:48 PM permalink | |
Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4256 |
Its strictly a supermarket. Basically a Walmart Grocery Store. |
November 14th, 2019 at 12:40:21 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Coin counting machines now impose a penalty if you opt for cash instead of card payments. |
November 15th, 2019 at 5:59:22 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Foreign Policy: China Can’t Afford a Cashless Society A mania for mobile payments is leaving the poor behind. BY RUI ZHONG | SEPTEMBER 11, 2018, 11:21 AM Rui Zhong is the Program Assistant for the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center. The growing “cashlessness” of Chinese cities threatens to expose underlying issues of economic instability. Mobile payments are carving out lines between young and old, and between the prosperous urban middle class and those left behind by the boom times. Mismanaged moves to mobile payments by municipalities could also lock the elderly and the poor out of the consumption economy—just when the Chinese government needs as many spenders as possible to drive forward the country’s economic transformation. Given the pervasiveness and the speed at which cashlessness entered China, it is no surprise that scams have developed just as quickly. Sweden, the Western poster child for a cashless society seems to be growing more and more enamored of their 500kr (~$51.80) banknote which was first introduced as a new series on Oct 1, 2016. It is the favorite note of ATMs, and the 1000kr banknote is still extremely rare. The portrait of Soprano Märta Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) adorns 40% of the volume worth 75% of the circulating value of Swedish banknotes. It sounds like the Chinese can't easily use cards as a backup, and if their phone breaks they are SOL. |
November 16th, 2019 at 1:32:00 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | The QR mania is also spreading to Korea where coins will soon be invalid as a payment system. |