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Anonymous wrote:Who in the world still pays with cash? They don’t know how to handle it because you are probably the only customer still using it.

I use cash every single time I go to Ute farmers market. So every week. And I use cash to do my laundry.

Farmers got that book learnin'.

Anonymous wrote:Stores and restaurants are now passing the credit card fee on to the customer. I use more cash for small totals when the the store convenience fee is far more than the credit card fee. Simple math skills flummox the average young cashier.

Which stores and restaurants? I need a list so I can avoid.

My dry cleaner tells you up front that you get a discount if you pay cash, which is wayyyy more palatable. I am always prepared with cash.

Anonymous wrote:Who in the world still pays with cash? They don’t know how to handle it because you are probably the only customer still using it.

I use cash every single time I go to Ute farmers market. So every week. And I use cash to do my laundry.

Stores and restaurants are now passing the credit card fee on to the customer. I use more cash for small totals when the the store convenience fee is far more than the credit card fee. Simple math skills flummox the average young cashier.

Stores and restaurants are now passing the credit card fee on to the customer. I use more cash for small totals when the the store convenience fee is far more than the credit card fee. Simple math skills flummox the average young cashier.

Anonymous wrote:Who in the world still pays with cash? They don’t know how to handle it because you are probably the only customer still using it.

I was thinking this too

Who in the world still pays with cash? They don’t know how to handle it because you are probably the only customer still using it.

This is true for at least the last decade. It's not a recent phenomenon.

Anonymous wrote:Just happened to me in the new Trader Joe’s.
Total was $18.25. I gave him a $20 bill and a quarter. He rang up the $20 bill then got all confused and couldn’t figure I wanted $2 back.
I really had to spell it out out for him.

Not true. They only have to punch in $20.25 and the cash register tells them what to give back. I did this back in the 90s.

I'm a teacher. Many don't handle cash or coins. They use cards or their phones.

It's impacting their math skills.

Just happened to me in the new Trader Joe’s.
Total was $18.25. I gave him a $20 bill and a quarter. He rang up the $20 bill then got all confused and couldn’t figure I wanted $2 back.
I really had to spell it out out for him.

I worked in a retail store throughout high school and college in the 90s and we didn’t count back cash then.

Yeah, you're just old, my dad was making the same complaint in 1995.

Cash and cursive.

Young people in 2025 cannot handle either.

I sometimes pay with cash to break my ATM $20s. Within the same week I had two instances of cashiers no longer being able to count back the proper change. In both cases they were younger people. I suck at math but there's a way to count back change that doesn't involve calculation. And sometime the register even tells you what to return.