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When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash

posted by FatPhil on Tuesday January 09 2018, @05:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-the-tip dept.

Justin Case brings us this story from NPR's Morning Edition:

Bluestone, which now has 20 stores in the U.S., went cashless last October.

A big reason: Nearly 90 percent of customers [...] never paid in cash.

Another reason: The lines move faster when employees don't have to make change.

"We see a lot of guests that pay for a meal with a credit card, but will always leave a cash tip. And I think people like doing that. People like palming a bartender a $20 or palming their server a $10. Palming the bus boy a couple bucks," said Fileccia.

There are also people, he said, who want to keep their meal off the books — if they're having an affair, for example.

No, businesses are not required to accept cash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @08:09AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @08:09AM (#619914)

    Unless they have some seriously exotic payment equipment,

    Have you been to Walmart recently? Not sure about where you are, but in Canada all CC payments were under 1 second in duration. Longest is when you are required to enter your PIN, but tap-and-pay is very fast.

    tracking customers in a giant database

    Yes, although many do this via facial recognition now.

    keeping out the riff raff undesirables, who might not have credit cards

    Then they can pay with debit? Or have those pre-paid CC that some employers use to pay them with.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @08:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @08:39AM (#619923)

    Longest is when you are required to enter your PIN

    Aka, when they are pretending[1] to care about security. As in, the rest of the time they don't even pretend, there is no security at all.

    [1] We've started moving from 8 chars [a-zA-Z0-9] to 12 or 16 chars, and they insist on 4 chars [0-9]... That's pretending, at most.