scrubbedexpat099

There is a coin shortage in the US, well I have seen signs asking for change and was told that was one of the reasons they like you to round up your payment with the balance going to a good cause.

Pulaski

I can't remember the last time I paid cash for anything - it was some time ago, for sure. Obviously I paid cash for lotterty tickets, but haven't bought one of those in over a year. ..... I know I haven't paid cash for anything since before March, but before that .... ???

BristolUK

In this case though, it seems the store was willing to accept cash. People walking away was probably not because they were unwilling to use cash, more that they didn't have the odd hundred or two hundred bucks on them.

scrubbedexpat099

I would pay cash for something small, I know the fees they get charged.

scrubbedexpat091

Yes Wal-Mart was quite happy to accept cash, of course most as you say likely lacked the cash they needed to pay for the purchase, Wal-Mart as far as I know never stopped accepting cash like some places did, seemed to be mostly small businesses that stopped accepting cash, but I noticed in Vancouver many of them went back to accepting cash.

I prefer cash and generally would use almost all cash, but stopped in March when places got all uppity over cash, but now seems most places are back to normal business wise, so may go back to cash.

Because we are on a limited budget, easier to deal with cash, pay bills, leave rent in account, withdraw the rest for daily necessities.

If we had been buying for ourselves, I would have just gone to the ATM and gotten cash, but it was shopping for instacart so that option wasn't available.


I think Wal-Mart may want to invest in big burly security guards to enforce the mask rule, the 70-80 something greeter well the anti-mask types don't listen, but maybe if there was a more opposing looking force at the door, they might.

Rete

I actually used cash for the first time at the supermarket yesterday afternoon. The order was small and I had just taken a withdrawal from the bank's ATM so I paid in cash. It did feel very odd.

Pulaski

I get a 3% kickback for buying groceries, plus a credit for a gas discount for groceries bought at Kroger, so I would never pay cash for groceries.

Because we are currently driving so little, we buy all our gas at the discounted price, and I haven't paid more than about $1.35 since February.

Piff Poff

Went to the mall today, it was odd, it was quiet. I used cash to buy some jewelry for a Christening gift, I didn't wear a mask, I hand sanitised on entry to stores.

Red Deer council voted not to make masks mandatory on Monday, that will be re assessed if cases spike. There has been one confirmed case at Olymel and one at a Tim Hortens in the last 2 days, I'm expecting a spike.

Gozit

Lucky you...masks have been mandatory everywhere here for about a month and i've about reached the end of my rope. I think i'm at the "denial" stage of grief with this stupid pandemic because I keep forgetting and having to go back to my car to get a mask.. I can see the merit of wearing it in public when coming into contact with people you do not know at all but I find it frustrating to have to wear it into work, clock in, go sit down in my office to take it off...have to go to the bathroom oh shit bettter put a mask on. Its all a bit much.

Since most shops reopened back in June I still do most of my shopping online as its just too much of a hassle to wait in line, answer the stupid questions that some places ask, wear a mask, etc. It's not how it was "before" and i'm not sure when, if ever, it will be.

scrubbedexpat099

I went to Hot Springs, just seemed weird, you had to wear it through the building but not in the hot springs. People I saw were in the springs not in the changing room, one of the advantages of using a bandana is being able to pull it up and down easily.

Had lunch in Breckenridge, one half of Main St you need a mask, town fine otherwise unless sitting at a table, the other half not.

Piff Poff

At my place of work we have to wear a covering as we cannot socially distance sufficiently. I wear a shield the majority of time.

Gozit

Yep I have to wear one outside my office as well. If I didn't have a private office I would have asked to work from home or be provided with a space where I can socially distance without having to wear a mask.

Having to wear one all day will absolutely be a deal breaker for me when hunting for full time jobs in the new year when i'm done school.

If I was still working at my previous job I would have had to wear one all day as we were client-facing IT and had walk in clients all day.

caretaker

I bought a bunch of nice ones today. A lady I gave a mask to last week left it in the beauty parlour after getting her hair done, and when she called back they told her they'd thrown it out. She'll get the cat one, and I have a stack of the checkerboard cannabis ones to give to friends. These are good masks. Tubular elastic was bought out early on, and I suspect new stocks are spoken for as nearly all the ads are for flat elastic, which I find less comfortable. My new mask lady overcomes this by using lots of elastic and beads to control the length, which works like a hot damn. The black one with monogram is for formal occasions.

Teaandtoday5

you are the Gok Wan of COVID-19

scrubbedexpat091

It's kind of funny people will wear all sorts of fashion accessories, and clothing, hats, sunglasses, those winter ski mask things, but ask people to wear a mask, and wow act like its the end of the world.