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Sorry Amazon: Philadelphia bans cashless stores
This week, Philadelphia's mayor signed a bill that would ban cashless retail stores, according to The Morning Call. The move makes Philadelphia the first major city to require that brick-and-mortar retail stores accept cash. Besides Philadelphia, Massachusetts has required that retailers accept cash since 1978, according to CBS.
The law takes effect July 1, and it will not apply to stores like Costco that require a membership, nor will it apply to parking garages or lots, or to hotels or rental car companies that require a credit or debit card as security for future charges, according to the Wall Street Journal. Retailers caught refusing cash can be fined up to $2,000.
Amazon, whose new Amazon Go stores are cashless and queue-less, reportedly pushed back against the new law, asking for an exemption. According to the WSJ, Philadelphia lawmakers said that Amazon could work around the law under the exemption for stores that require a membership to shop there, but Amazon told the city that a Prime membership is not required to shop at Amazon Go stores, so its options are limited.
(Score: 4, Informative) by isostatic on Tuesday March 12 2019, @11:32AM (2 children)
His family health insurance is $40,000 per year
What is wrong with your country?
To spend $40k (£30k) in health care in the UK you'd have to have two earners each paying £75k in tax, or earning about £180k each in tax.
If it's one earner it's £150k in tax or about £350k a year ($460k)
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @12:12PM
It's America. They fuck ya. It's like in India where you have a cast system, except in America it's like that with health. If you are born sick or just get bad luck, then you better die fast as otherwise it's a painful death with no health insurance. Like a 3rd world country.
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Wednesday March 13 2019, @04:15PM
What's wrong with my country? Plenty. If you're bored you can go to the Pennsylvania health insurance exchanges to buy private family insurance. You can get the same $40k numbers he's actually paying.
I'll be even more angry if true socialized medicine doesn't hit within the next five years. The situation has been untenable for a long time, I just think the inertia of anti-socialism propaganda is finally getting overcome by sheer frustration.