Poll: Since March 2020, what's the frequency of your cash or credit/debit card transactions for in-store purchases
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May 16th, 2020 7:23 pm
May 16th, 2020 10:23 pm
May 16th, 2020 10:51 pm
May 16th, 2020 11:37 pm
Not necessarily ...
May 17th, 2020 5:01 am
May 17th, 2020 8:43 am
May 17th, 2020 9:30 am
May 17th, 2020 1:08 pm
May 17th, 2020 3:15 pm
May 17th, 2020 4:30 pm
What kind of business? Wouldn't accept cash is not only bad for business but also virus?TrevorK wrote: ↑ For myself, I spend more cash than before. One of the businesses that I choose to shop at (almost weekly) during the pandemic does not take credit cards. Before the pandemic I would go there once every 2 months or so.
Otherwise I am spending the same amount of cash as before - very, very little.
May 17th, 2020 10:45 pm
May 18th, 2020 10:53 am
May 18th, 2020 11:17 am
May 18th, 2020 11:28 am
May 18th, 2020 11:53 am
I've mostly eliminated spending cash, but I will never eliminate carrying cash. I always have at least $100 in cash with me which I rarely use, but it has saved me several times, like when the payment network went down in the supermarket and cash was the only way to pay. I was one of the only customers in the store who could actually pay for what was in my cart. Garage sales, craigslist, street performers, girl guide cookies, bottle returns, Remembrance Day poppies, when the power goes out, when the payment network goes down...I could go on and on. There are plenty of uses for cash and there always will be. If we think the electronic payment network will always be available for everything we'll ever want to buy, and at the time we want to buy it, we are deluding ourselves. It pays (literally!) to be prepared.