A growing number of lawmakers don't want cities to go cashless.
Access to a credit card or bank account allows many of life's tasks to be put on autopilot. Money can be automatically deducted to pay an electricity or phone bill. A tap of an app can send money to a relative in need.
But it's not just those without credit and debit cards who may balk at being told they can't use cash. In an era when data breaches have occurred at institutions such as Capital One and credit rating agency Equifax, some consumers worry that cashless payments can infringe on their privacy. “If you have the money, you should be able to use it,'' Torres says."Cash is the great equalizer and the universal mode of currency. Not everyone has access to credit or debit, but everyone uses cash at some time in their life.”In the midst of the rising debate, some previously cashless businesses are reversing course.
Meanwhile, Amazon Go stores in San Francisco and New York City now take cash, and the company plans to accept hard currency at all Amazon Go stores over time to allow more customers to shop there. Cheeseman says she began to focus on the issue after a friend's daughter reached the checkout at a New York restaurant only to find out it didn't take cash – and that's all she had.
To accommodate customers who still needed or wanted to use dollars and change, the baristas were told to pocket the money and use their own credit or debit cards to complete the sale."I thought it was the right thing to do,'' Clifton says."I don't want to turn anybody away.''
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