[akg_67]

What is wrong with cash? It is one of the most fail proof form of payment. Stripe fail, chip fail, NFC fail, internet connection fail, phone line fail. But cash work almost all the time.

In last year, I have bailed out quite a few people stuck in the checkout lines because whatever hi tech form of payment, they were using, didn’t work and had no cash.

[Broken_Hippo]

I live in Norway, and cannot remember the last time my card wouldn't work - period. Not just with the reasons stated.

When I lived in the states and worked retail, your cash wouldn't be accepted at a lot of stores if the power was out (or if internet/phone lines caused the registers to fail). To complicate things, I worked in a pharmacy, so accepting cash for the medicine without it going through the system might have actually been illegal.

[kalleboo]

You have to remember to get it out of the ATM. I ran out of cash like a week or two ago and have been too lazy or forgetful to stop by an ATM to get it.

Not to mention to use an ATM you need a card already to begin with, might as well just pay with that card directly?

[bserge]

Notes get wet, rip, and fall out of pockets. Everything fails.