[ifinnegan]

Interesting. I’ve never come across a cash only store.

[roadcat]

Interesting. I’ve never come across a cash only store.

I prefer paying with cash. I don't like being tracked. However, I think the Amazon cashless store in SF is a good thing. The homeless can go shop somewhere else (thousands of other stores will take cash). My brother-in-law works at Walgreens in SF, and shoplifting is an out-of-control problem there. Thousands of dollars of merchandise walks out via black thieves, and he has been assaulted trying to stop them. Walgreens could solve the theft problem by going cashless.

At Amazon, you can't enter without setting up a digital account, and you're charged automatically for any merchandise that leaves the store with you.

[vette6387]

“Interesting. I’ve never come across a cash only store.”

Well, I know personally of a very good restaurant in Monterey, CA that accepts only cash. In fact, they have actually put in an ATM so people can get ready cash to pay their tab from their credit cards. I guess for them the marginal charges they incur from taking credit cards are an unacceptable expense.
On the flip side, we no longer EVER dine in San Francisco, since restaurants there were “mandated by the government” to levy a separate charge on your bill for “employee healthcare!” On their road to running out of other people’s’ money, they have come up with some draconian ways to get your money.

[mosaicwolf]

Many stores in my area of AR do not take credit cards. Too expensive.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I’ve never come across a cash only store.

They are usually small businesses that could not afford to have a credit card machine.

So they were cash or, if they knew you check, only.

With Square most of those places now take cards for purchases over a certain amount.

But my seed guy still only takes cash.

[Svartalfiar]

Interesting. I’ve never come across a cash only store.

There's plenty of cash-only places, especially out in the smaller towns. What is rare is a no-cash place though.