I think cash is quite acceptable at any place I go. I’ve never had problem.
I also know the first thing kids understand is dollar bills.
Even the ding-battiest person will be able to count money.
It’s not an enlightened skill.
Yet my daughter has the same $40 I gave her in August. Has managed to live on her own for three and a half months without using cash once. Most of her peers are in the same situation. As are my Gen Y coworkers. Our office cafeteria is cashless.
Maybe she’s the dingbattiest person ever, but she’s studying Engineering at one of the top schools in the world.
She does understand that in case of a natural disaster it would be useful to have cash. But in her day to day life, it’s not needed.
Yes, the register tells them how much change to give, but the cashier still has to count it out of the till, which seems to be a challenge for some of them.
Didn’t mean to say your daughter is a ding-bat.
I bet if she was working the register, anywhere she could count money.
Now, as far as that age using cash, I agree that don’t use it often.
They definitely know what it is.
That is absolutely not a true statement.
Cite: every retail job I’ve ever had. Including the current one.
Yeah, basic arithmetic skills are not as widespread as one might think. I once saw a customer get into an argument with a cashier because he paid for a $3.99 purchase with a $5 bill and insisted that he was owed $2.01 in change. A five minute conversation with the cashier and the store manager couldn’t convince him otherwise, so in exasperation the manager finally just handed him an extra dollar.
I worked with teenagers in a very busy concession stand with 6 registers.
They all learned to give change, bar none.
It was a privilege( 
) to get to work there. Lots of fun stuff. So maybe they were motivated. IDK.
There are people who say they can’t work a register because of fear.
I stand by the belief, that most people can.
Most people yes. Especially if they are motivated.
The ding-battiest person, no.
I’ve never seen a grocery store even remotely busy the day after Thanksgiving.
I was shopping at Shoppers Food Warehouse on U.S.1 in Hybla Valley south of Alexandria, VA at around 3:30pm today. No hassle at all.
Back on my (MD) side of the Potomac, I shopped at Weis last Wednesday morning, and Giant and Walmart on Thursday, and Giant again on Saturday morning, and didn’t have a problem at all that I can recall. Parking lot was a bit more crowded than usual, but that was it.
I stopped by a pie store and apparently they were baking around the clock. No ordering anything for Thanksgiving. What you see is what was available. They were polite but looked like they had been baking around the clock.
That’s where the next customer in line pulls out their phone and uses its calculator to show the dingbat that 5.00 - 3.99 = 1.01.
Or you could do this:
Other than a couple of valet parking tips & powerball ticket buys that’s me. And I’m a LOT older than your daughter.
Cash is a grossly obsolete waste of time & effort needed only in the presence of active government obstruction of more modern convenient methods. HARRUMPH!!1!1!1!
Went to four different stores today, between “X item we need/very much want can only be had at store Y” and “store A is out of this item at this location, try location B, or competitor Q”.
FoodsCo (rather lower-end grocery store) wasn’t so bad.
WalMart location 1 did not have a couple of urgents on the list, did have pallets of plastic-covered goods blocking a major through aisle. I asked the cashier to let management know that carts couldn’t get through and pedestrians were having trouble, much less people on mobility scooters, and that this might also be a fire code problem. Fairly busy but not awful.
WalMart location 2 (a Neighborhood Market sharing a parking lot with location 1, which has been there a lot longer) did have one urgent, but not another. Not super-busy.
Winco did manage to complete my list, but was a crowded zoo, with everyone so in their own heads (or up their own backsides) they seemed incapable of registering that others were present and trying to move around. Nearly every register was open and they were still backing up pretty badly, and the lines for self-checkout were even worse (I dealt with a quite nice cashier).
Being me, I’m neurosing a bit about H5N1 figuring out going human-to-human and causing problems like we had in 2020. Seeing signs at Winco about them reserving the right to limit quantities has me a bit uneasy about whether there are supply problems coming our way.
We’ve had a rough flu season here. So I’m seeing lots of masks.
The pharmacy drive through was way long.
We passed without stopping. We’ll get it later.
Stores have always had signs about limiting amounts. Not worried about that.
And no general idea of travelling half-way across the country because it’s Thanksgiving, and then eat with 15 other people that you sorta know, because it’s Thanksgiving. And no crazy uncle. Different strokes.
Some places where I travel cash is still necessary. In Aruba only a few of the taxis have credit/debit card readers and you need to have cash.
Also, I use wheelchair assistance at airports and need cash to tip for the service. Other than that I normally use my credit card for everything in most places.
I went to the store again today because yesterday I forgot something I really needed, pee pads for the dogs. Jeez, I thought it was busy yesterday but today, in a large parking lot, I had to park out quite a ways. So crowded but surprisingly people were being civil. I ended up getting a small turkey as well. I always buy on at this time because the prices are cheaper. When I roast it the meat is packaged for early next year.
If you can’t spot the crazy uncle…you may be the crazy uncle!