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OsrsNeedsf2P • today at 11:01 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

The uptime of cash in my wallet is pretty close to 100%. It's extremely rare that I have to use it, but it's incredibly convenient to have each time it's required

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traceroute66 • today at 12:29 PM

> it's incredibly convenient to have each time it's required

Sadly there is an increasing preponderance on the part of retailers to do one of two things:

    1. Go card only (sadly happening in far too many places)
    2. Make it incredibly difficult to pay by cash (e.g. 10 card tills, 1 cash till with long queues because it is also the cigarette/lottery ticket/package collection till)
The only people remaining who will almost kiss you for offering cash instead of card are taxi drivers.
comboy • today at 11:14 AM

If you look at uptime as discrete set of events when you need to pay for something, my cash uptime is not looking great nowadays. "Sorry I can't break that" or machines accepting coins which you don't have at hand. Just to be clear I despise CC companies the system is broken in many ways.

tossandthrow • today at 11:17 AM

You are aware that many places don't accept cash, right?

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