War on cash

[BudT]

Is Joe (AKA hair sniffer) stepping up the war an cash? I know he's in bed with the one world agenda so deep he cant look over the edge to see down or up. Yesterday one place suddenly switched from any form of payment is great to "cards only" and you have to or we will write down all of the card info and your info which we promise to shred later, ya right. Today at Wally World self checkout, sign says "Cards only" no cash, WTF is going on is the hair sniffer moving on the elimination of cash, or as some would say it's just a coincidence which I don't believe in. Who was it that said nothing happens in this country that wasn't planned, Roosevelt? I put my items back on the shelf and left, I decide where and when I use a card not someone else.
Have you pissed off a WOKE person today? I have LOL
Bud

[Vern Humphrey]

Take a look at one of the bills in your wallet:

"This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private."

[lyman]

there is , for reasons I have not been told, another coin shortage, as in not enough in circulation or available for banks/retail/etc to use in each register,

[Roadkingtrax]

BudT sounds Iike his woke targets.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/why-do-us-coins-seem-to-be-in-short-supply-coin-shortage.htm

[BudT]

Caught another one

[Roadkingtrax]

Is this Sam again? Or does the IP address not check out?

[togor]

No cash drawers also means no drawer counts, no safe full of cash on the weekend, etc.

Definite savings there for a business.

[lyman]

No cash drawers also means no drawer counts, no safe full of cash on the weekend, etc.

Definite savings there for a business.

how so?

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Is this Sam again? Or does the IP address not check out?

not Sam

[togor]

No cash sometimes means no paid attendant on duty. Gas pumps in the Midwest for example. And toll roads, going to credit cards or transponders.

A convenience store that took no cash would have no register to rob.

It's a business decision.

And if Fox has now declared a "war on cash" maybe BDS too.

[BudT]

there is , for reasons I have not been told, another coin shortage, as in not enough in circulation or available for banks/retail/etc to use in each register,

I have not heard that anywhere I have been. Unlike some I almost always carry enough different bills and change/coins to make up the exact amount needed. The wife and I keep lots of coin and bills to use for some time it's a life long habit for us. I was taught that if someone is in business they will take most any form of money if they want to stay in business. The last time this coin stuff went around no one was refusing cash but they did want you to make it as exact as you could, we did and all was good. If this gets to bad I'll call my CC company and have them raise my CC limit a lot and enjoy the free 30 day loan. Pay it off each month as has been my habit. Another method would to buy pre loaded cards and use them to cut the tracking. It's nobody s business but mine where or how I spend my money.
Regards
Bud

[togor]

My summer job for a few years as a kid was food vendor at Milwaukee County Stadium. The Brewers were good then so regular crowds of 35K-55K were common. And back then it was cash only for food, beer, souvenirs. In the bowels of the stadIum is a small army of cashiers who has to process all of that cash. Count it, sort it, put it in rolls (lots of coins) after every game, often into the small hours of the morning. A cashless stadium, if there are any, does away with all of that.

[lyman]

other than a small mom and pop operation , most of corporate America does not work like that any more,

even if most if not all is counted 'by hand' there are still some automated functions that are done by machine,
even bill counters were out years ago,

a lot of retails have cash dispensers, for coin and bills, that count and reconcile tills for you,

you just have an office clerk or manager verify everything in the morning, feed the machine money if it needs it, and pull out the deposit ,


even in the grocery biz,, 5 yrs ago, when I was last in it, the cash office clerk was only in the back office 1/2 a day, (unless there was a serious shortage, which was not often)


our coin was delivered in rolls, and the loose was dropped in a bucket every day, (every till started the day with rolled coin unless it was not available) and the loose was processed thru the Coinstar machines and credited back to the store,

if you needed to count coin, there were tools to do that for you manually, vs going 1,2,3,etc etc

and we are talking stores doing $200K or more a day

[BudT]

Interesting, we are much different here than back east and other places.Not long ago I watched a bill counter count a stack of bill in a store for a purchase, twice. The change machine was used to and it not only separated the coins but counted them.
Thanks for the info
Bud

[barretcreek]

Visa or MC started a promotion a while back in NYC. They paid restaurants $500K (each) to stop accepting cash. There were already a few, and legal challenges were started.
Not sure how the program went.

[Mark in Ottawa]

I suspect that the refusal to accept cash is due to the fear that paper bills are contaminated with COVID bacteria and not because of a plot to change the world's monetary system.