The cashier said "I don't like counting", but he meant "This order is on a clock, and I'd rather be yelled at later for a short till than right now for fucking up our stats."
Big chains and franchises I don't give a shit, but local business I've been using almost exclusively cash. Same with tips, I may pay with a card, but I will tip in cash.
Boohoo, I'll miss my 1.5% rewards as my "cut" for them taking 3%+ transaction fee. I'll pay the extra 1.5% to make sure all my money actually goes to the business I'm supporting.
Also, millions of people in this country still live in areas rural enough that most of the businesses are still cash-only. You go more than thirty minutes outside of any moderately sized city and you'll start running into this. I've done a lot of road tripping around this country and it's pretty consistent in my experience.
I live in a rural area and can confirm, there are still plenty of "cash only" businesses. Going "no-cash" here would be a death sentence to a business.
I do like the consumer protections a card gives, but at the same time, the stuff I'm buying with cash is all stuff I wouldn't bother to do a charge-back on anyway. Plus, that's way less PII and card information businesses can potentially "leak" later.
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u/fer_sure 4d ago
The cashier said "I don't like counting", but he meant "This order is on a clock, and I'd rather be yelled at later for a short till than right now for fucking up our stats."
Also, "Pay with card next time, Boomer."