Oh, wait, that's the Apple Store Business team, isn't it?
Now, due to cost (although price has gone up for the stuff), the Geniuses are no longer trained at HQ, and there are now lower level “technicians” that can’t do much more than give you a new phone.
After Angela left Apple, the first thing they did were "revert" all the thing changes back to Steve Jobs era.
Basically Apple Retail has been a pile of mess since Steve passed away, not keeping up with the huge iPhone growth, and none of the Retail SVP had any idea what is best for Apple Store.
This is a hilarious problem to anyone who has been using polymer bills for nearly a decade.
Once it has a small tear, it very easily tears the rest of the way.
Once it is folded it never goes flat again.
They also feel really cheap.
I thought that at first.
Now the old ones feel really cheap to me. I guess you just get used to it
-Scandinavia
https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wikileaks-visa-blockade/
Blanket, universal surveillance as well as zero-burden-of-proof government point-and-click seizure/disablement is the cost.
You cannot have a free society without a payment system that the government or a few large banks do not have the ability to arbitrarily censor, even temporarily.
You can not communicate or organize anonymously (for example, for political organization or government corruption investigative journalism) when every payment you need to do so is logged as a matter of course. These activities are not common, but essential to a free society.
The ability to transact in things the government does not like, without their knowing about it, is a cornerstone of freedom. Many other human rights crumble if you do not preserve it.
Nope. From [1]: Federal Reserve Notes are made of 75% cotton and 25% linen fibers.
Over in the real world, the employees have spent 10 hours of their 12 hour shift explaining to the world's least-technically-adept people how to activate their Verizon service with 4 prepaid debit cards and a ripped $20 bill. Sixty times. While being yelled at. So... they might accidentally not notice you if you just come in and don't aggressively try to attract their attention. I do not blame them.