Things To Come...........

put it back in the freezer
what would you have done hahahha

I was in Atlanta in July and saw the parking meters were gone and instead they have one box at the end of the block in which you pay for parking with credit card.

I can't see a cashless society coming any time soon. Even if a major disaster takes place and power is out for a week, how many generators is it going to take to keep the basic things that we're used to going. It might sound like a great idea to some, but all it would take is a flick of a switch to shut an entire business down. God bless the mom&pop stores with there antique cash registers.

I pay cash for everything.

I was at the DMV getting my license tags, and I noticed signs stating
that they charge a 2.7% "portal fee" for debit/credit cards.

You could get around that by paying with a check (until the DMV stops
taking checks, that is!), but a lot of people don't carry around
paper checks anymore. I don't even have any paper checks...

Paying cash saved me $6.83 in "portal fees" (for two cars).

This habit people get into of using debit cards for minor purchases
led to the infamous $40 cup of coffee.

Of course, without the overdrafts, the card declines when they least
expect it, and Starbucks is left holding their latte. (which I might
subsequently buy at half price with my real live money, ha ha!)

Let me repeat: Cash always works.

Denver's new 'card-reader' parking meters still take coins, thank God!
When I put my Dollar coin in there (yes, they all take 26.5mm Dollars),
I know that I'm paying One Dollar,
not "one Dollar plus transaction and card fees."

People paying $3-5 for $1 worth of parking in the name of "cashless
convenience", and risk having a card decline just when you get the
prime parking space ( so I can pull in afterward and pay with my $1 coin! ).
It makes me want to buy one of these.

No, but I did now. Thanks for sharing the link.

It is inevitable.

Many things that I do now have become purely electronic my lifetime. E-mail correspondence has replaced letters. Digital downloads have replaced cassettes, LPs, and CDs. My bills are sent to me in e-mail and paid online. Online conferences have replaced site visits.

I am not saying whether it is right or wrong, but cash will go away eventually.

The only question is how long it will take.

oh, you are making me feel old. I told my group of nephews (about 18 years ago) how sometime in the future we would be using nothing but credit cards... we are certainly closer to that, but I bet the lack of progress over the next 18 years is just as remarkable.. :)

This "news" has been making the rounds for weeks in European coin forums/communities. It's not taken too seriously. Frankly, the BBC has overblown it.
Europe is way behind in credit/debit/charge use compared to North America and the privacy issues are much more important to Europeans than Americans, although Sweden is on the top of giving away privacy (just read a crime novel by Liza Marklund and shudder what even a journalist, normal citizen resp., can find out about someone living in Sweden -- and those parts of her books are not fiction).

On top of that, Sweden cannot go cashless if the rest of the Union does not follow, and that just will not happen within the next 20 to 30 years.