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Re:San Francisco considers banning cashless Amazon stores by drewcon on Thursday March 21, 2019 @02:24PM (#19455645)
This makes sense.

Why is it hard for these stores to process cash in some way? Why not just have the ability to put cash into a machine in the store and spit out an anonymous account? (asking seriously)

Re:San Francisco considers banning cashless Amazon stores by gkoberger on Thursday March 21, 2019 @02:32PM (#19455764)
Well, you need a cell phone to even get in, so that would likely have to change too. And then they'd need one of those complicated self-checkout kiosks where you tell how you're paying. Someone would have to deal with all the physical cash (and checks?). And at that point, you're just Walgreens.

I 100% get the logic, but for progress to happen we unfortunately need to break some norms. Like, Uber also requires a phone and doesn't accept cash... if they had to do both of those, they'd just be taxis.

Re:San Francisco considers banning cashless Amazon stores by cowholio4 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @02:31PM (#19455744)
Dealing with cash is expensive. You physically have to move it and protect it from getting stolen by thieves and even employees.