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As More Retailers Ban Paper Money, It's Making Things Awkward For Customers Without Plastic (wsj.com)
An anonymous reader shared a report: Sam Schreiber was mid-shampoo at a Drybar blow-dry salon in Los Angeles when someone from the front desk approached her stylist with an emergency: a woman was trying to pay for her blow-out with cash. "There was this beat of silence," says Ms. Schreiber, 33 years old. "She literally brought $40." More and more businesses like Drybar don't want your money -- the paper kind at least. It's making things awkward for those who come ill prepared. After all, you can't give back a hairdo, an already dressed salad or the two beers you already drank. The salad chain Sweetgreen has stopped accepting cash in nearly all its locations.
Most Dig Inns -- which serve locally sourced, healthy fast food -- won't take your bills either. Starbucks went cashless at a Seattle location in January, and at some pubs in the U.K., you can no longer get a pint with pound notes. The practice of not accepting cash has become popular enough to catch the attention of American lawmakers. [...] Despite the popularity of debit- and credit-card transactions, plenty of people do still pay for things with actual money. Cash represented 30% of all transactions and 55% of those under $10, according to a Federal Reserve survey of 2,800 people conducted in October 2017.
Most Dig Inns -- which serve locally sourced, healthy fast food -- won't take your bills either. Starbucks went cashless at a Seattle location in January, and at some pubs in the U.K., you can no longer get a pint with pound notes. The practice of not accepting cash has become popular enough to catch the attention of American lawmakers. [...] Despite the popularity of debit- and credit-card transactions, plenty of people do still pay for things with actual money. Cash represented 30% of all transactions and 55% of those under $10, according to a Federal Reserve survey of 2,800 people conducted in October 2017.
Bring cash, because dispensaries take nothing else.
Especially a Salon. That is insane... they live off of cash tips. Read: avoid taxes.
Back when staying at the Playboy Club in NJ in the 1970's, I went to pay with cash. They said credit cards only. I offered a check, and they said no checks. I told them thankyou, my girlfriend and I had a wonderful weekend...at which point they got a manager and decided I could pay cash. BTW, that girlfriend is now my wife.
California also tends to be highly segregated and classist. The cashless/privacy-less businesses are deliberately set up as such, to keep people like the poor, recent immigrants, etc out. It's a form of class discrimination disguised as convenience.
I worked at a fast food joint when I was a kid that kept being robbed. It's a minor miracle I wasn't. The owner kept the lobby open 24/7 until finally somebody got pistol whipped by a robber and the local cops told that owner "next time somebody gets hurt we're gonna hold you criminally liable". Only then did the owner close the lobbies after 10.
I can tell you that if you're running a business that can be robbed doing away with cash is a huge boon to the employees. Though it's going to be interesting when we become cashless and petty crime just goes away. I guess you can mug me for my shoes and my cell phone. But as soon as I get home I'm going to lock the cell phone (and modern DRM means you can't even use it for parts) and my shoes cost $50 bucks on Amazon.
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That's the trap of using plastic (or worse, phones), in that it becomes too easy to blow through your budget. For me, it's often that I'll notice that I only have $20 left and decide that I don't need dessert, or something similar. Without cash, money stops feeling like a real thing to some people, they don't have an internal regulator that says "stop spending". I know people (usually in their twenties) who will spend all of their paycheck and not think that this is wrong in any way.
Yeah - that's intentional. These businesses don't want "their kind" in their establishments. Requiring cards is a low-pass filter on the people they feel are beneath them. "The trash can take itself out", etc.
"No cash" at s brick-and-mortar is a label that says "an elitist asshole runs this place".
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But their bank is FDIC insured. If they refuse cash the bank MUST revoke their status for transfers meaning their credit card clearinghouses can deposit the transactions.
Back in the 90s when we got paid in the military, before days of direct deposit, banks tried to refuse to cash checks if you didnt habe an account. I had 5 or 6 banks GROVELING once I started the process of revoking their FDIC for refusing to cash a governement check. Think they wont fire a customer to keep their FDIC status? Think again.