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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Information is power in the Information Age. The reason they hate cash is they don’t get to record what you purchased.
You would need to be a Dick Tracy to track somebody who only uses cash, but does not use ID.
I’m familiar with how pervasive cameras are getting. They are developing cameras and software, where they can tell you were speeding between any two points by comparing your plate at one point and measuring the length of time it took for you to get to the second point and they can send you a ticket if you make too good a time.
Maybe they don't accept cash in order to prevent robberies.
Thanks. About what I thought.
“Cash allows for purchasing things without leaving a trail of digital bread crumbs.”
That’s now going away, sadly. Facial recognition cameras will identify the person who bought so-and-so with cash, and that’s not even usually needed, given license plate cameras and transponders. And don’t forget your smart phone announcing your every move.
You may still be able to buy a flip phone at Walmart for cash without them being able to figure out who you are...but those days are numbered.
1) Leave your smart phone at home.
2) Park far away and walk to Walmart
3) Try to distort your face, maybe with makeup, broken bones, or something else.
4) Buy your flip phone
Sure be nice if some of these ‘privacy protectors’ would STEP-UP and do do something...but they will not.
That is an illegal practice. US currency is by law “suitable for all debts, private and public”.
There are now more photos being taken each day than all the photos combined in human history prior to 1980. Granted, a lot of them are teenage girls taking cat pictures, but still.
It is now prudent to assume you are constantly under surveillance once you leave your house. And one cannot even be sure that you are safe from surveillance inside your home!
california secretary of state will not accept cash for corporation debts
Once I take the goods, I am indeed indebted to pay for them. If the goods are in my possession, they are mine.
I agree. The guns fit someone’s needs. My colt repros would be anathema to many, but I love my 1851 Navys.
Fewer places then, that I will patronize. I pay cash everywhere, except for online purchases. I’ll do without if they don’t take cash.
" Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.",
It basically falls down to the point of when you incur the debt ... if you already have the goods or have received the service, then you can pay with cash, but, if say you go get gas for your car and want to pay cash, you can't pump the gas until you pay for it and the station can refuse cash if they want.
It’s more expensive to take cash & credit cards vs credit cards alone. There are security and auditing procedures for cash, issues with theft, robbery, ect.
>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?
They pull out their iPhone and start swiping credit cards.
>We are so screwed.
How so?
Cashphobia.
Sorry, US $ are legal tender for all payments.
I spent three days in Missouri recently on business. 1000 miles from home. I didn’t have a penny in cash. I felt kind of stupid. Forgot to grab some as I left for the airport. It became a bit of a challenge.
“Funny how that works. I know of places that are very happy to take cash for very obvious reasons.”
Yeh, me too. I even know of places that take cash only. And, know of places that give a discount for paying by cash instead of a credit card.
Only if the retailer has agreed to sell them to you on the condtions you are offering to buy them.
Otherwise, it is theft.
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