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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, Informative) by helel on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:23AM
As I understand it cash is good for all debts - A business can refuse to accept cash for goods or services before a transaction but after the goods or services have been provided and you have incurred a debt they cannot reject cash. However, they are not required to make change, simply accept the offered cash to clear the debt. Hence, you may indeed be able to force a street vender to accept a 1K note for a sausage-inna-bun but they don't have to offer you anything other then the already provided dog in exchange.