Businesses hate cash, from the position of a retail outlet cash is just a nightmare. Between misfeasance and malfeasance it’s a pain in the butt: people miscount it, it winds up being counted multiple times which costs man power, employees steal it, it atracts thieves, plus there’s the disease factor (absorbant paper that spends most of its time in warm moist pockets and occasionally gets sneezed on... really cash is kind of gross). Pretty much everybody in the retail world that doesn’t get tips dreams of the day physical money winds up on the ashheap of history.
And it’s people who think like that who make me more determined to use cash or do whatever else they don’t like, just to give them an in-your-face for wishing one of MY options away.