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But cash has nothing to do with this.
It's an entirely unrelated issue.
It could equally be a warning to floss every day for all they're related.
When the payment processor goes down, I can buy my groceries/gas/weed with cash, not by flossing my teeth. I don’t follow the point you’re making. Going fully cashless is a bad idea, and the recent outage didn’t affect every system used. I don’t see how having multiple methods of payment is possibly a bad thing. I’m not advocating for only cash.
The inventory and POS systems also go down. You still can't by your groceries/gas/weed.
Going cashless is a bad idea. But not because of this.
It's pretty clear this incident has highlighted a myriad of very important issues.
It's likely more productive to discuss the other issues in their own threads - this thread is clearly focused on the cashless problem.
That's exactly what we were discussing.
But it doesn't matter any more.