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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While I use digital a lot, I routinely mix in cash, a lot of stuff still isn’t set up to accept cards yet, or only do so in externally buggy ways. Also I prefer to tip in cash as that way I know who I’m giving it to gets it all. I’ve heard to many stories about supervisors at restaurants using digital tipping systems to steal from the servers.

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