Re:In praise of cash
by ghaff on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:26AM
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I've actually wondered what the impact on buskers, clerks that make some money off a tip jar, etc. is of the shift toward plastic. I guess, in the US, a dollar bill is still a relatively small amount. But I know that I basically never have change on me these days unless it's quarters to put in a parking meter.
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I imagine one of those swipe attachments for a cheap android phone would work well. The UI is known pretty well now, and many people trust them in the US. I often see them at festivals, where it was previously all-cash, but are now maybe 20% plastic, usually for bigger items ($65 tshirts lol.)
I imagine tip jar employees are doing all right. I used to drop a dollar and whatever coins I got back as change in there, now I push the 20% button on their iPad, which is almost always more.
It varies, right? If it hits the iPad or whatever, then the tip goes through management, has to be taxed, may be tipped out to other people, whatever.
Some of that is simplified by just having a jar of cash with limited options for opaque gaming.