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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, Insightful) by Pino P on Thursday July 11 2019, @11:46AM
I'm trying to avoid a phenomenon where a seller must be "significant" or not sell at all. One already sees this with Amazon's $40 per month membership fee on top of the 15% commission.
I just looked at Square pricing [squareup.com] again, and it turns out that Square appears to lack the per-transaction fee that is so problematic for "car-parking-change-box" scale transactions. The $49 chip reader, on the other hand, would need to push a lot of sales to recover its price. The magnetic stripe reader is less expensive, but in 2019, is it still considered acceptable to take cash or magnetic stripe cards only, no Google Pay, no Apple Pay, no chip?