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[quote=Anonymous]I would support a more targeted law that only required businesses that sell necessary items (grocery stores, pharmacies, convenience stores, etc.) to take cash. Because your ability to buy food or medicine or diapers should not depend on your ability to get a bank card.

However I don't see the point in requiring all restaurants, bars, and retail businesses to take cash. Many of these businesses are not accessible to poor people anyway because they cost too much. Should a restaurant where the cheapest thing on the menu is a $20 appetizer be required to take cash in order to better serve poor people? It's comical. They aren't serving anything a person needs -- it's a discretionary item.

I personally cannot afford to eat at places like minibar, I don't see what the point is of making them take cash if they don't want to.

The axios article did say there were exempted businesses, though it also said they might change the law to expand the businesses covered.

I do think that if a businesses sells non-essential, discretionary items, they should get to decide for themselves. The market will determine whether they need to offer cash transactions. But yeah, a grocery store should have to take cash.[/quote]

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