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Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny? by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:38AM (#23831789)
> Cash accounts for less than half (44%), by volume, of transactions in Canada.

That’s about where the USA is as well. Cash is used in 31% of consumer transactions. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/06/spike-the-dollars-obit-cash-...

Anecdotally I haven’t carried cash around in years.

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Re:Is It Time to Kill the Penny? by blaser-waffle on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:07AM (#23832106)
> Anecdotally I haven’t carried cash around in years.

Generally I keep a $40 in the wallet just in case there is a cash-only situation, but that's literally just a backup -- 99% of transactions are on some kind of card.

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