Regularly go shopping and regularly the EFTPOS is down or buyers have difficulty with their 'devices' - many others are then are inconvenienced. Cash payers can pay and walk away with ease. As far as staff is concerned many cannot count past 20 and have trouble giving change - you want speed, teach kids in school how to count and how to think and not just how to push buttons.
Regularly there are queues at fast checkouts - one person having to serve at a front counter as well as at the so called fast checkout isle. Customers are often left waiting in a 'fast isle'. Recently one supermarket replaced most human operate checkouts with self serve checkouts. Now staff members watch you fumbling through your purchases whilst you do their work - many times item scans with the wrong price and then having to call the idle worker for assistance - and you want speed???
I for one refuse to use self serve - even though it is at times more troublesome with being served due to waiting times and will keep paying with cash and often in small change - they make me wait or expect me to do their work - I expect to be served and expect for staff to be able to count and give change. As for other customers behind me - let them wait, I often have to.
Any business that wants to charge buyers for using cash is run by a bunch of morons. If anything, any business should offer discount for cash buyers - saves the business on bank fees and the hassles of the system being out of service. Can't help morons but can help by taking my business elsewhere. Never yet lost my wallet not any of it's contents - only misplaced it a couple of times - but always found it safe and intact to date.
Cash is safe from scammers from anywhere in the world, convenient and one can actually count their money knowing what they have to spend - none of this spend without knowing exactly what you may have been charged extra for or not knowing exactly what your balance may be or possibly going into overdraft. You can do as you wish. I try to avoid as much as possible to be served by morons. AIMO
