[matt1234]

The manager informed the agents that the facility kept no such records and that all transactions were conducted on a cash-and-carry basis.

This part makes me wonder if the report is false. (I hope so, but I don't know.) How many businesses are cash only?

[MestaMachine]

Back in the day, clinton issued executive orders for FEMA. NO ONE IS TO HAVE OVER THREE DAYS OF STORED FOOD, NO GARDENS OVER A CERTAIN SIZE. And if a national emergency is declared, you must turn over the keys to your residence to FEMA personnel and evacuate to a central location. Your foodstores will be confiscated for redistribution. Weapons will be confiscated and the National Guard deployed in anticipation of riots.
No need for ‘new’ laws.
As far as I know, those orders have never been repealed.

[wintertime]

How many businesses are cash only?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

My understanding is that the Mormon canneries are not really businesses.

[jiggyboy]

How many businesses are cash only?

It's not out of the question. I could point you to at least one well-run fast-food place in a fine area in Silicon Valley that has a cash-only policy, and any number of grubby little mom-and-pop eateries as well. That might be begging the question of whether cash-only is an absurd notion when the business is a cannery, but I don't know if you were asking that specifically.