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I have a long-running conversation with my sister about when folding green stuff is going to go away. There are a variety of laws at least here in Massachusetts saying you can’t NOT take cash, altho the precise details of what that means are a little interesting. I mean, _YOU_ try going to a car dealership and buying a car that costs more than $10K with a suitcase full of cash. See how far you get (okay, now is not the best time for that joke, because it’s hard to find a car to buy anyway).
Dick’s Burgers in Seattle, like many similar places, held out for a long time, and even had an ATM machine right next to it for those people who failed to bring cash to get their burgers. But even Dick’s takes cash now. Honestly, marijuana retailers go to a lot of effort to support payments from customers that are other than folding green stuff, decide their limited access to the banking system. When my sister and I (and others) sit around talking about What Do We Still Need Folding Green Stuff For Anyway, it tends to devolve pretty rapidly to “tipping”, and broad acknowledgement that venmo/zelle/apple pay/google pay/paypal/etc. make it very easy to tip people without cash and probably the remaining use case is needing folding green stuff to tuck into a g-string because there is in that use case a desire for physical contact which is technical not allowed. Hardly the kind of thing we are keeping cash around for in any case.
We _could_ get rid of cash, and at this point businesses in general _want_ to get rid of cash (because once you stop having to make drops to the safe and/or bank, you never want to do that again. Ever.). But those laws.
“Massachusetts law says customers must be able to make purchases using legal tender, which tranditionally has been cash, according to Healey. Fenway offers fans the option of loading cash onto a Mastercard debit card at a Cash-2-Card exchange kiosk, meaning their cash is not obsolete at the ballpark.”
I did not retype that — that spare n was in the original.
This is pretty awesome! I don’t understand how an underbanked person could possibly afford to be in Fenway park, much less purchasing anything there, but hey, they’ll have a mastercard debit card after loading their cash into the machine. Technology developed elsewhere (ATMs that can take non-enveloped cash and automatically read it)(immediate card issuance only one step above arcade-type cards) has been converted into a maw that moves cash-oriented types towards payment cards. Inexorably, at least if you are trying to use cash at Fenway.
Healey says its fine. Yay!
I have a long-running conversation with my sister about when folding green stuff is going to go away. There are a variety of laws at least here in Massachusetts saying you can’t NOT take cash, altho the precise details of what that means are a little interesting. I mean, _YOU_ try going to a car dealership and buying a car that costs more than $10K with a suitcase full of cash. See how far you get (okay, now is not the best time for that joke, because it’s hard to find a car to buy anyway).
Dick’s Burgers in Seattle, like many similar places, held out for a long time, and even had an ATM machine right next to it for those people who failed to bring cash to get their burgers. But even Dick’s takes cash now. Honestly, marijuana retailers go to a lot of effort to support payments from customers that are other than folding green stuff, decide their limited access to the banking system. When my sister and I (and others) sit around talking about What Do We Still Need Folding Green Stuff For Anyway, it tends to devolve pretty rapidly to “tipping”, and broad acknowledgement that venmo/zelle/apple pay/google pay/paypal/etc. make it very easy to tip people without cash and probably the remaining use case is needing folding green stuff to tuck into a g-string because there is in that use case a desire for physical contact which is technical not allowed. Hardly the kind of thing we are keeping cash around for in any case.
We _could_ get rid of cash, and at this point businesses in general _want_ to get rid of cash (because once you stop having to make drops to the safe and/or bank, you never want to do that again. Ever.). But those laws.
“Massachusetts law says customers must be able to make purchases using legal tender, which tranditionally has been cash, according to Healey. Fenway offers fans the option of loading cash onto a Mastercard debit card at a Cash-2-Card exchange kiosk, meaning their cash is not obsolete at the ballpark.”
I did not retype that — that spare n was in the original.
This is pretty awesome! I don’t understand how an underbanked person could possibly afford to be in Fenway park, much less purchasing anything there, but hey, they’ll have a mastercard debit card after loading their cash into the machine. Technology developed elsewhere (ATMs that can take non-enveloped cash and automatically read it)(immediate card issuance only one step above arcade-type cards) has been converted into a maw that moves cash-oriented types towards payment cards. Inexorably, at least if you are trying to use cash at Fenway.
Healey says its fine. Yay!