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The simple answer is to reject the cashless society.

Agreed.

Recently, I came across a coffee shop and a bakery that proudly displayed "We are cashless. No cash accepted." signs.

Not accepting cash is a method of discrimination. It keeps people without bank accounts out of your establishment. The overwhelming number of people without bank accounts are minorities and immigrants. That's why in some cities it is illegal for a retail business to refuse cash.

Maybe those businesses saved 0.006¢ on the transaction by not accepting cash. But they lost thousands because a fat guy isn't going to buy cookies there in the future.

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Small business do not go cashless to save money, nor raaccciiismm

They go cashless because it eliminates the threat of robbery. Them proudly having signs everywhere saying they were cashless is to announce to the would be theif there is no cash payday here..

Most businesses that do that have a history of robbery.

Right.

I don't think that they're even able to track this because coronavirus lockdowns meant that they had this massive trough in business anyway.

So now they'll never know that I just don't shop with them. I'm not gonna run around moaning, I'll just go to that cool Chinese takeaway down the road that doesn't have its' head up its' own arse.

It's actually kind of nice because it means I go to more down to earth independent places.

Cash is surprisingly expensive for businesses.

Through mistakes and malice money will disappear.

On top of that you have to spend a not insignificant amount of manager time counting and running money to and from the bank. If you deal with large amounts of cash then you get to file CTRs frequently.

In addition to all that you have to deal with the physical infrastructure. Cash drawers, safes, money bags, etc…

Having worked in both retail and in banks I can promise that cash is a major pain point.

> Maybe those businesses saved 0.006¢ on the transaction by not accepting cash.

I'm not sure where you are but in the US the banks will charge a few percent + 10c, its adds up to a lot of money. Plus you dont need to pay people to count/store cash, or get robbed which adds big savings.

You don't need a bank account to use cards to pay for things.

You also don't need to use an attempt at humor about fat people to add authority to your argument.

It wasn't an attempt at humor. It was a statement of fact. I'm a fat guy. I'm not going to buy cookies there.

Try not to invent imaginary offenses on behalf of strangers.

I'm offended. Try not assuming that you're the only person who matters.

FWIW, I enjoyed your humor.

^^ shoulda said "add weight to your argument"

> Not accepting cash is a method of discrimination

Then you should fight the good fight of making cash great again! :P

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