Analysis | Paper checks are dead. Cash is dying. Who still uses them?
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Don’t be the guy who holds up the line at Safeway to spell out “sixteen dollars and forty four cents.” And maybe think twice before fishing out a twenty.

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Paying for your meal after the fact is a debt. If you pay up front you can refuse cash. If you pay after you can’t.

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Bingo.

samwise
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Interestingly, most of the places that don’t take cash are counter service (albeit fancy ones). So you do actually pay up front.

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