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Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores

posted by takyon on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the cashless-grab dept.

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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.

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:35PM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:35PM (#813270) Homepage Journal

    (cont) By the way, Carbon Paper. We hear all the time about, somebody's cyber got hacked. By Russia, China, Korea -- whoever. But before there were cyber hackers, there were Carbon Paper hackers. We didn't call them hackers. We called them Crooks. When we did the imprint, we would (many times) throw away the Carbon Paper. Well, that paper would have all the numbers from the Credit Card. Not so easy to read because it was white numbers with black around them. And the numbers were very long. Tough to read. But, not too tough for these guys. They would pick those special papers out of the trash. Read the numbers. And do Fake transactions with those numbers. Not great. But, still much better than cyber. Which has complicated lives VERY GREATLY!!!

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday March 12 2019, @05:24PM (1 child)

    by captain normal (2205) on Tuesday March 12 2019, @05:24PM (#813368)

    You sure seem to know a lot about scamming card numbers off the old fashioned imprinters. Where did you learn that?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @10:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @10:26PM (#813500)
      Common knowledge of that time.