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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You will learn what the big deal is when there is a power failure.
Liberals need to control things. Cash allows for purchasing things without leaving a trail of digital bread crumbs.
No she didn't. The restaurant did. It will learn to accept cash or die quickly.
More likely, when your bank account is empty because you posed off the wrong person.
And an EMP event causes all your bitcoins to vanish into nothingness.
Or if you fall out of favor and someone decides to freeze your funds or if someone takes a liking to your account and empties it out while you were sipping on your $8 designer coffee. How about if your car breaks down in BFE and the tow truck takes cash and only cash? Good luck waving a piece of plastic at him while you wait for an Uber to drive 100 miles to get you.
Just pulled out some US currency, just to be sure, and YES it is still marked, “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private”. Wonder how these NO CASH places get around that?
This how they keep out poorer, non white customers who usually deal with cash.
“This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.”
They refuse cash payment, you don’t have to pay.
I think if you are doing business with the public CASH is the proper medium. I believe it can be used under federal law for debts public and private.
If I hand out a $50 bill and the merchant says he won’t accept it, then I’ll have three words for him: “Great! Free then!”
I can see them requesting two forms of photo ID for cash.../S
CAN be used for all debts, public & private. Doesn’t mean that the merchant HAS to take it.
Meanwhile voter ID = racist
I wondered the exact same thing.
“It will learn to accept cash or die quickly.”
Sadly, no. No-cash businesses are popping up all over and they will survive (or die) just like other businesses.
Millennials don’t carry cash. I have seen this numerous times. My father, poor as he might have been, always had cash when we went anywhere: restaurants, vacations, gas stations, whatever. Today, young people simply want to carry their phone and maybe two or three cards (Driver’s ID, credit card and/or debit card), and earbuds.
I have millennial age friends who marvel that I always have cash. It makes no sense to them. I always carry it because it is useful in emergencies and untraceable.
These same millennials have no food reserves at home, no extra water, no way to cook or communicate if the power goes out, no emergency funds at home, and often no firearms or tools of any kind. They are often completely helpless in emergency situations. In large cities, many of them have no cars and not even a driver’s license even in their early twenties. It’s all just so odd to me.
Actually our local supermarket stopped accepting cash during a recent power failure. The cash registers wouldn't open! So they brought out some battery operated credit card readers, evidently kept on hand for this type of event, and started accepting credit cards as payment. Those with cash were out of luck.
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Any place that won’t take cash won’t see me again!
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He should walk out and lets see the cops charge him with theft.
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