refusing to accept cash

Quote: Pacomartin

I don't think there is much call for it on the state level. If a business chooses to go cashless in the USA it basically makes a decision to throw away a certain portion of potential business in favor of efficiency. Only businesses in large cities have a viable option to throw away that business.

Well SF and Philadelphia and two large examples of cashless ban cities.

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.

Quote: Evenbob

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.

My local Walmart self checkout machines accept cash and gives exact change.

Quote: Gandler

My local Walmart self checkout machines accept cash and gives exact change.

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.

Quote: Evenbob

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.

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.

Quote: Gandler

Maybe, I should have been more specific, it's a Walmart Neighborhood Market,

Never heard of it. Mine is a Supercenter.
Every one I've been in has card only
machines and a couple that take cash.

Quote: Evenbob

Never heard of it. Mine is a Supercenter.
Every one I've been in has card only
machines and a couple that take cash.

Its strictly a supermarket. Basically a Walmart Grocery Store.

Coin counting machines now impose a penalty if you opt for cash instead of card payments.

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.

The QR mania is also spreading to Korea where coins will soon be invalid as a payment system.