Re:More businesses are not accepting cash
by Izkata on Sunday December 30, 2018 @05:15PM
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No comment on the rest of it, but on this:
> I don't carry cash because it feels more cumbersome and less speedy than paying with card. With cash, I either have to work out close to exact change or--when I'm out for a leisure day and going to several places--have a mass of coins jangling around at the end. I've noticed that I'm now irrationally irritated watching someone painstakingly count out $12.83 in exact change ahead of me at the till.
I've actually timed the people in front of me, and the vast majority of the time, cards take nearly twice as long as cash. No idea why, as I would also expect counting out the change to more than make up for that.
(I'm in the US, maybe the systems are different enough to account for this?)
> I don't carry cash because it feels more cumbersome and less speedy than paying with card. With cash, I either have to work out close to exact change or--when I'm out for a leisure day and going to several places--have a mass of coins jangling around at the end. I've noticed that I'm now irrationally irritated watching someone painstakingly count out $12.83 in exact change ahead of me at the till.
I've actually timed the people in front of me, and the vast majority of the time, cards take nearly twice as long as cash. No idea why, as I would also expect counting out the change to more than make up for that.
(I'm in the US, maybe the systems are different enough to account for this?)