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D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect

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Re: D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect

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Off topic but the writing style is so weird. It's sad they have to make articles a few paragraphs with a bolded titles to get people to read.

Almost impossible to read actually. What even do some of the bolded parts have to do with the parts that follow them?

'Driving the news', 'Zoom in' and 'zoom out' seem just like spurious titles.

Re: D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect

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Off topic but the writing style is so weird. It's sad they have to make articles a few paragraphs with a bolded titles to get people to read.

Here's a slightly more intelligble article:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/new-laws-on-guns-ca...

At first I thought they were banning cash-only businesses, but it is in fact the opposite. Businesses must now accept cash in Washington D.C.

Re: D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect

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Interesting. I get why you'd want to ban cashless business, but many business in a nearby town with a high crime rate are going cashless because you can't rob a Square reader quite as easily as a cash register.

I know a business that went cash-only for the same reason in reverse: the thieves were doing it via chargebacks saying they never heard of the place. Couldn't win disputes even with video evidence.

They put in an ATM, can't charge that back.

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