Posted on 12/26/2017 4:54:24 PM PST by artichokegrower
The other day at Dig Inn, a just-opened lunch spot on Broadway and 38th Street in Midtown Manhattan, Shania Bryant committed a customer faux pas. She placed her order for chicken and brown rice and yams, and when she got to the register, she held out a $50 bill.
“Sorry,” the cashier told her. “We don’t take cash.” Not, “We don’t take $50s.” No cash. Period.
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Legal tender for all debts, public and private, baby.
Strange. The bills in my wallet say they are legal tender for all debts public and private.
The note says that you cannot refuse cash for debt purposes. It does not say that you have to accept cash for purchasing purposes. That was to protect indebted people from losing their land or tools because somebody refused cash to settle a debt.
A smart retailer will be as flexible as possible, but there is no law stating that he must accept cash.
Just opened, and won’t be open long dictating rules to their customers.
I suppose paper doesn’t care what you write on it?
Meanwhile, I was thinking...
If a person has bad credit, they may not have a bank account, and no credit or debit cards, this means the business will discriminate against him for his financial disability. I find this quite entertaining.
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Yes, it does.
That is the law in this country.
The tyranny that will arise when cash goes away will be worse than any yet seen.
I got around that by having the bank exchange a hundred for five 20s. But “no cash” is just odd.
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Read the law!
Cash cannot be refused.
Paper money is all icky and has germs. Let me have it, I’ll sanitize it. CYAL8TR
“This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.”
“They refuse cash payment, you don’t have to pay.”
By golly, you are 100% correct. I had over looked that fact. Thanks, I am now prepared for when I run into this situation.
My favorite coffee shop, The Village Pantry, only takes cash, so the universe is still in balance.
“They are going to choose lots. I prefer a do over vote.”
They were put on George Carlin’s “List of People Who Need to be Killed” a couple of decades ago. As George said: “Tic Tacs are not a major purchase, get yourself some f*cking cash!” He also mentioned newspapers and cheese doodles, which are more or less the same thing.
You can be pre-loaded credit cards at Walmart, or almost anywhere, really.
Of course, they cost a little bit of money to activate them.
They have to accept dollars...not necessarily cash:
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages/legal-tender.aspx
https://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/sorry-no-cash-please/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-13/visa-begins-bribing-merchants-stop-taking-cash
Same experience here. My millennial children use Apple/Samsung Pay and have 2 or 3 credit cards. They do not like handling cash and would not use it at all if they could help it. That said, they are pretty responsible with their money. They are constantly keeping track of their spend and use coupons to save money (usually in apps on their mobile devices) whenever possible. Their credit cards are automatically paid off each month. One of my sons has a gas station app that allows him to activate the pump as he drives up, he then pumps his gas and by the time he gets back in the car, he has his gas receipt already on his device. There are some slick apps out there.
As for cash being untraceable, I don't think that is the case anymore. Every POS has those surveillance cameras with facial recognition. If the government was so inclined, they could probably see where you spent all that cash unless you really went undercover and made your purchases in side alleys and such. Also, I'm pretty sure that the serial numbers of all bills are recorded in ATMs and could be traced back to the point of withdrawal. For example, if you used a $20 bill to buy gas in Topeka, Kansas, the government could probably determine that same $20 bill was dispensed to you at an ATM machine in Joplin, Missouri earlier that day. They can then call up your photo from that gas station in Kansas and confirm your identity.
While 99% of my traveling expenses are on credit cards, I do use cash and as others write, what if power is out or, for a restaurant, their Internet access is down? Will they close? What happens if it is down for hours or days? Bye, bye.
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