The concession stand wouldn't take cash.

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3. I find it infuriating. I frequently shop for an elderly neighbor--just a few items and she has cash...

And grocery stores are so insistent on the self check-outs that I shop as soon as they open at 6 AM to avoid issues with too many customers. Yet, even then, only about 1/3 of the self-check-out stations allow you to use cash and those that do have big problems with OLDER bills. Not ripped bills. Not irreparably wrinkled, folded bills, but just bills that are not new no matter how much you work to flatten/straighten them.

So, if a machine cannot figure out how to accept older currency after all these decades of ATMs and others doing so, why should we accept that machines or AI are going to do any better on any other task?

But, the worst is having stores that don't accept cash. Sam's Club (where my neighbor has also sent me) only accepts cash at the one single manned check-out--not at ANY of the self-check-out stations. How do they get by with this? Really. One option and dozens of people in line. sigh...