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When The Cash Register Doesn't Take Cash

posted by FatPhil on Tuesday January 09 2018, @05:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-the-tip dept.

Justin Case brings us this story from NPR's Morning Edition:

Bluestone, which now has 20 stores in the U.S., went cashless last October.

A big reason: Nearly 90 percent of customers [...] never paid in cash.

Another reason: The lines move faster when employees don't have to make change.

"We see a lot of guests that pay for a meal with a credit card, but will always leave a cash tip. And I think people like doing that. People like palming a bartender a $20 or palming their server a $10. Palming the bus boy a couple bucks," said Fileccia.

There are also people, he said, who want to keep their meal off the books — if they're having an affair, for example.

No, businesses are not required to accept cash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 09 2018, @06:38AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 09 2018, @06:38AM (#619890) Journal

    Unless they have some seriously exotic payment equipment

    It may be a "race to the bottom" for all the other businesses.

    Where I leave, the cards have a NFC chip and even the small coffee shop (kiosk size rather) of the train-station in the almost-countryside burb I'm living has contact-less POS terminals - great for the first sip of (awful) espresso I'm having in the morning.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 09 2018, @06:40AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 09 2018, @06:40AM (#619891) Journal

    Sorry, not NFC, RFID.

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @01:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @01:21PM (#619985)

      the almost-countryside burb

      RFID

      TWO posts, TWO typos? ... did you mean "Mayberry R. F. D. " ?
            You silly Goober.