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on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:45AM
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[...] Artists entertaining at specific spaces along the Royal Mile will be equipped with special readers to take fixed-amount payments.
It comes after feedback which noted a drop in the number of people carrying cash.
[...] Street performer Scott Hutchison said: "Until now, I've relied on cash contributions from audiences and I have definitely noticed a dip as the number of people carrying cash has decreased.
Source: Street Performers to Take Contactless Tips at Edinburgh Fringe
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:23PM (2 children)
Say no to the cashless society. [theguardian.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday July 29 2018, @01:03PM (1 child)
One thing about cash, it's very private. A lot of times that's a great thing. Sometimes, not so great. But I always ask for the receipt, and that's the best of both worlds. Another thing, there's no take-backs with cash. You know you've paid -- or gotten paid. When I was in the real estate business, we would get so many cash buyers. They'd come in with a big box of cash and buy an apartment -- or a whole floor of a building. Great customers. Another thing about cash, it always works. They have so much cyber now, this thing where I guess you wave your phone around. But it's not 100%, sometimes it has problems. They have to do the reboot, very slow. I try to always keep a little cash -- $20,000 or so -- in my wallet. Because sometimes I want something VERY FAST or I want it VERY PRIVATE.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Sunday July 29 2018, @04:51PM
There are still a couple of places here in town that take only cash. When the tornadoes hit here in March 2006 power was out for a week, meaning the bank was closed, ATMs didn't work, and most places that stayed open in the dark or had emergency lighting could only take cash; no power, no credit card readers.
My cats would have gone hungry had I not found an old store that still had the old fashioned card reader that used carbon paper.
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