Who bothers to carry cash any more? The less I have to carry, the better, IMO.
Also, many places/card processors don't require PIN entry on purchases less than $15 (at least around here), so it's actually quicker than cash (without the shoulder-surfing-slippy risk too)... :)
You should have haggled with them. You probably could have gotten the coffee for under a dollar with only a few minutes invested in price negotiations.
You should have haggled with them. You probably could have gotten the coffee for under a dollar with only a few minutes invested in price negotiations.
I should at least get a 5% break, wouldn't you think?
Speed wise, I will admit that I'm much less annoyed by cards than by the senior citizen who waits five minutes in line doing nothing, and only after having her order rung in begins scrounging through her hockey bag of a purse bringing out one coin at a time. THAT brings me to the brink of a FREAKOUT!
I'm with manic. Debit cards, at least, seem faster than cash to me. Depends on how swift the register person is, somewhat, but at worst it's a push...
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Dunno about that...An extra large coffee at Tim's is two bucks flat (a Toonie for us Canucks), which I already have in my hand before I get to the counter.
You should have haggled with them. You probably could have gotten the coffee for under a dollar with only a few minutes invested in price negotiations.
Sure, or some old fart (a quickly irritated one) would have paid for his F)(*&^g coffee, just to get him out of the way...Now there is a saving.
Speed wise, I will admit that I'm much less annoyed by cards than by the senior citizen who waits five minutes in line doing nothing, and only after having her order rung in begins scrounging through her hockey bag of a purse bringing out one coin at a time. THAT brings me to the brink of a FREAKOUT!
Not as bad as some four eyed young-un in a cheap suit who just started working in a local bank who ordered a small coffee and a donut... and then..........wait for it.........asked for a receipt.
I honestly thought that my inner voice, (the little one) said "Get fucking real"......seems it wasn't my inner voice after all.
Funny... I usually have at least 3 credit cards on me (ok, 2 credit, one debit) and a few hundred in cash. Don't know why anyone would not give themselves multiple options.
Grog no use evil card-of-owing. And Grog remind Doctor-of-runny-nose that Grog is Cro-Magnon. Would be like Grog call you gyncekulgunycollogynekollogist Doctor-of-females.
The smartphone in Korea just pays, no typing of pins etc. I believe that Korea will be the first cashless society in the world. That is now if you exclude most of Africa where they are already cashless.
A lot of it has to do with the electronic age. Who goes to the bank any more? I have direct deposit, and pay all my bills online. If I need cash, there are ATMs everywhere. The *only* check I write any more is to my landlady, and I'm trying to figure out an electronic way around that. I might actually have to go to the bank and sign up for a bill payer service! LOL!!!
I work a semi-retail job where the counter traffic is often less than $10 a head, and we very rarely see cash any more.
As a matter of principle I have around 500 Norwegian crowns in my wallet when I'm out and about. Amongst other things, it means I don't have to turn round and ask someone else if they have cash in the (increasingly rare) event of it being wanted. Of course, being a principle, it is built on ideological sand. As a matter of fact, I seldom have that cash im my wallet, but even so...
I've been noticing the occasional Coke vending machine that accepts credit cards, too. I tried it once as a novelty, figuring my wife would flip when she saw this on the credit card statement.
I've been noticing the occasional Coke vending machine that accepts credit cards, too. I tried it once as a novelty, figuring my wife would flip when she saw this on the credit card statement.
You're getting to the rub of the thing: when there's no more cash, how will we sneak the occasional guilty indulgence past our quartermasters? "Honey, what do you need cash FOR, anyway? Be honest with me; are you STILL buying Hershey bars at the 7-11?"
When cash is outlawed, only outlaws will have cash...
