Vent: My local coffee shop stopped taking cash and I was mad, but then I saw their reason

So my favorite spot, Brew & Bean, put up a sign last week saying they were cashless now. I got really annoyed, thinking it was just some tech trend they were jumping on. I even complained to the barista about it. But then the owner, Sarah, came over and explained. She said in the past six months, they'd been robbed twice and had to deal with counterfeit bills three times. Going cashless cut their insurance costs by almost 30% and let them feel safer. I still worry about privacy and what happens if the systems go down, but seeing how it directly helped a small business stay open made me rethink my hard line against it. Has anyone else had a local place switch over for safety reasons, not just convenience?

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the_sam3d ago

Heard a similar thing from my buddy Mike. His corner store went cashless after someone smashed their window for the third time to grab the register. The owner told him the break-ins stopped completely after that, and he could finally sleep at night. Mike said it totally changed his view on the whole cashless debate.

rileygarcia3d ago

Wait, that's not exactly the same situation though! Mike's buddy had a store that kept getting robbed for cash, so going cashless fixed his safety problem. But Hannah's point is about customers who can't pay without cash. It's two different sides of the same issue, not the same thing.

hannah3203d ago

But what about the older folks or people without bank accounts? They rely on cash for everything. Forcing them to use cards just cuts them off from buying basics. It solves one problem by making a bigger one for a whole group of people.