[ He used his credit card for the $4.76 McDonald’s meal and then forgot to remove the receipt from the fast-food bag he crumpled and stuffed inside the box before sending the package on its path to Oakland, California. ]
Heh. Just wait until cash is eliminated. Every transaction will be tracked. Once the RFID system is fully-implemented in every grocery store, tracking will be even easier there, too. I expect wealthier outlets like Amazon and WM to go there before any Mom and Pop shops (if any exist, anymore). Gotta have the money to implement the systems. Until it becomes mandatory.
Oh, the video on implementing the RFID system in the grocery store. This video is from 2007, BTW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk
Looks fast and convenient. And it will be. It will cut down on theft, increase accuracy.
Everything will be fine until someone declares you need a 666 to officially be able to buy or sell with your debit card, credit card, micro-chip or cell-phone. All of your deposits will be tracked and logged. After cash is eliminated.
#22 I would have charged him with littering as well. That would have been another 6 months in jail...
I wish to have those cameras in my car when I have my car fixed. See what the mechanics break to increase the repair cost.
Personally, I think these small seizures (and theft) of cash are to keep law enforcement salivating about the next bust.
Meanwhile, the real movement of payments is happening across crypto.
Did you know there are couple new crypto’s specifically created for the marijuana business? Since dispensaries cannot use banks to hold all their cash some are moving to crypto as a store of wealth and payment transaction while Federal laws get ironed out. They become less of a target because they don’t have to store all the greenbacks themselves.