Posted on 05/07/2019 6:50:05 PM PDT by dynachrome
San Francisco officials voted Tuesday to require brick-and-mortar retailers to take cash as payment, joining Philadelphia and New Jersey in banning a growing paperless practice that critics say discriminates against low-income people who may not have access to credit cards.
The vote by the Board of Supervisors was unanimous.
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Bingo! Using a card means the store has a means of extracting payment from the customer. If there is a deficit once the customer leaves with merchandise, the store has the means to recoup payment because they have the ID. There is rampant shoplifting at Walgreens because there is no procedure for identifying thieves and no means to prevent them from repeating their thievery on a daily basis.
I was wondering how young you were that you had not come across a cash only store.
Credit only is becoming more and more popular, usually in more affluent areas where most or all of the customers can be expected to have a credit or debit card. I think it just depends on where you are and who your customers are. But if most of your customers pay with credit cards anyway, then there are a lot of good reasons not to mess around with cash.
Credit card processing is pretty easy, convenient, safe, and inexpensive for businesses these days. Handling cash is inconvenient, time consuming, expensive, and potentially dangerous depending on where you are and how much cash business you do.
Yeah.
Last time I was in S.F., I got embarrassed in a Chinese pizza shop when I opened my wallet and found I only had 3 chickens, a goat, and a dildo. They only accepted dildo so I couldn’t get the pizza.
I have gone to an Amazon store, but I didn’t buy anything.
Apple store is probably the same.
I understand everything you say and agree. Credit also gives rewards, so for years I’ve bought almost everything with a card.
Pay it off every month.
But, still, I’ve never seen a no cash accepted store. And there are still a fair amount of cash only joints.
So what?
The retailer could also discontinue the product-line you need - or discontinue only your preferred brand.
He could, e.g., stop selling 3-oz. candy bars, and sell only 10-lb. blocks of chocolate.
He could stop selling cartons of cigarettes, and sell tobacco only as shag, so you'd have to roll your own.
He could stop delivering groceries to your doorstep (a service the elderly or bedridden might really appreciate), and require that you actually come to his store to shop - or vice-versa.
He could, if he wished, completely close his doors on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
Why do you think that the government should intercede in these cases?
Regards,
Of course, Libs know to lie about the topic, then call for a ban and then finally mandate a law outlawing it.....
Not really true. I am owner of a small business and we have a TIN, issued by the IRS and different than a SS number -- different format even.
It is very convenient for times when some form wants a SS number and I don't want to give it to them. I just write in my TIN. Supposedly the IRS is the only entity that can correlate my TIN with my SS.
The first thing out of San Fransicko I’ve agree with/ in ages!
Sure they do, but as long as that stuff keeps working, they'll use it.
It sure beats their other tactics of SWAT raids on citizens and re-education camps.
Does this include banning Silicon Valley companies that only accept online payments?
Welp bans and mandates don’t work at all.
They aren’t going to tell me what I will do, and they aren’t going to tell me what I will not do.
A person only has as much power over one as one gives them, and I give them none.
Lies, on the other hand, is the currency of the Democrat Party, and the media is their personal financial adviser.
They can do or say whatever they want, whenever they want, regardless of what they said 30 seconds prior, and their credibility is absolute, and their media lap dog will carry that water for them until their arms fall off their bodies.
LOL
For those in the service today it is.
Not anymore, over the past several years DoD has been phasing out the use of SSNs for military personnel.
Each uniformed servicemember, military family member, and DoD civilian employee has a DoD ID number. I received it on active duty many years ago, it followed me as a retiree, and I use the same number as a DoD civilian employee.
Don't go into business in the USA if you refuse to accept what has been deemed legal tender (for ALL Debts, public and private) here.
ML/NJ
“There’s plenty of cash-only places, especially out in the smaller towns. What is rare is a no-cash place though.”
Yes.
I mistakenly wrote cash only instead of credit only.
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