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Dominos Australia has taken a controversial step in having five of its stores go cashless for pizza pickups in the name of reducing pickup time and queues. Dubbing the new system "tap and take" Dominos hopes that it will reduce waiting times, increase convenience, increase safety and reduce costs involved with handling cash so that they can "remain digitally agile and continue to meet consumer demands". The trial is not winning any points with Libertarians who believe that the government is pushing businesses to crack down on the cash economy with concerns about the government taking a big brother attitude to monitoring business cashflow. While a number of businesses in Australia are cashless, removing the option tends to put customers off with a number of businesses just bearing the loss of profit from customers who prefer to pay with cash.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by lentilla on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:19AM (1 child)
Not entirely correct. The early colony had somewhat of a shortage of currency [wikipedia.org] so rum (the alcoholic beverage) became the de-facto means of exchange. Unsurprisingly, this resulted in some issues! The British military running the place had extensive problems with corruption to the point they earned themselves the sobriquet of the Rum Corps [wikipedia.org].
In the decades following the establishment of the penal colony in New South Wales in 1788 there was a protracted battle for control waged between the British Government, the Rum Corps and the Squattocracy [wikipedia.org]. The Rum Corps was disbanded in 1818 (mainly as a result of the Rum Rebellion [wikipedia.org] of 1808 where the military tried to take control of the government.
Currency was still a problem and in 1812 the government purchased some Spanish dollars and had one of the convicts with previous experience with forgery turn those Spanish dollars into Holey Dollars [wikipedia.org], so named because one Spanish dollar was punched into two parts: the Holey Dollar and the Dump. The currency was more-or-less under control by 1825 but it took another a decade after Federation in 1901 that Australia had it's own currency.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday July 11 2019, @11:09AM
See, if there's ever a question of why Oz is better than the US, just compare: Rum Rebellion vs Tea Party.
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