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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4411388, member: 105098"]There's also this thing with store robberies where the criminal will spend a hundred earlier and when they come back to stick up the place they know they didn't get the big bills because they didn't get their $100 back. If a store takes a $100 and it's fake they get stuck with the entire loss if they take a $10 or less and it's fake there's a good chance it gets passed to someone else and it becomes someone else's problem, and if it's a $20 the loss isn't that bad. Then there's the "too many hundreds" at one time situation and you get run out of smaller bills. I can understand businesses that get frequently targeted for robberies gas stations, fast food, to see a benefit to going cashless whenever possible. It makes them less of a target. 30 years ago a $100 bill was a problem for some places. It still is that hasn't changed. But newer payment methods have come up since then. When I was a kid ATMS weren't a thing yet, payphones were everywhere and telephones had a "dial" on them you spend to enter each number. Tvs were big like a piece of furniture and black and white seen at friends houses usually until I was a bit older when color became common. We didn't have computers. Electric typewriters were the innovation at the time. Times change, things change.[/QUOTE]