2: you can use cash in the stadium: you buy a card with your cash and you use it to pay for items. You don't divulge any more ID than you do on the T when you buy a Charlie Card. You don't need to enter the stadium with anything but cash. The system just prevents the staff from having to handle your Covid-infested dollars.
3. You're an idiot.
1. No you cannot.
2. How effin convenient. So much easier than using cash. So convenient for the customers and the people walking around selling hot dogs and drinks to not be allowed to use cash.
Let me ask you guys. Why? Why is this being done? Who benefits and how? Certainly not the customer or the vendors whose lives are now a little more complicated.
And how is it NOT against the law that clearly states cash must be accepted?
And who really believes that the next step will be to require personal data to obtain the cash card?
Why are you people so willing to be trampled by the bosses?
I can see it being way more convenient and accurate. I worked admissions for an event a while back. Swiping a credit or debit card was fast. Whereas when someone paid cash, it slowed down the process. I had to take the cash (not very worried about COVID being transmitted that way) and put it into a pouch. I often had to make change that means pulling out wads of bills and running the risk of dropping some. Then I had to take the time to give the change (we only dealt in bills). Then from time to time I ran out of change and we had to have someone run to the bank each day to deposit the money and to get more change. That is staff time that could be valuable.
With the pre-paid cards the vendors swipe and go. No need to come back to drop off cash and pick up change. The money from the machine gets immediately sorted and put into a lock box that can be picked up quickly by an armored car.
No one needs to collect the cash and put it in cash counters and then get it bundled up. The money does not have to be collected from a dozen or more locations from around the stadium. All the cash is in one spot.
No need to worry about balancing out with the vendors. You sold 100 beers so there should be $1000 here but you are short $20. It probably also makes it easier to handle the accounting. Taxes have to be collected so all those transactions are immediately dumped into the accounting system for an accurate tally.
The intent is that if someone shows up at Fenway with cash, they can take the cash over and get a card. Again, just like every county fair in America.
Again, the AG (the top law enforcement official) says it complies with the law. Are you a lawyer?
And no, I do not think they will be gathering personal information. They do not want to slow down the process for the few people who come to the park with cash.
Lastly, you have a choice not to attend a game. You have a choice not to purchase items if you do go. How is that?
No it’s not. They absolutely cannot require private transactions to accept certain tenders. What kinda police state do you want to live in?
So removing the ability to use legal tender (cash) moves us away from a police state?
Yes why the f**k do you want the government to force you to accept THEIR CURRENCY - that they have completely control over. This is literally what hyperinflationary governments do months before complete collapse.
"No retail establishment offering goods and services for sale shall discriminate against a cash buyer by requiring the use of credit by a buyer in order to purchase such goods and services," the law reads. "All such retail establishments must accept legal tender when offered as payment by the buyer."
"No retail establishment offering goods and services for sale shall discriminate against a cash buyer by requiring the use of credit by a buyer in order to purchase such goods and services," the law reads. "All such retail establishments must accept legal tender when offered as payment by the buyer."
You need to be a lawyer to understand that?
They are not requiring credit. So they are in compliance. This is a bad law though.
"No retail establishment offering goods and services for sale shall discriminate against a cash buyer by requiring the use of credit by a buyer in order to purchase such goods and services," the law reads. "All such retail establishments must accept legal tender when offered as payment by the buyer."
You need to be a lawyer to understand that?
They are not requiring credit. So they are in compliance. This is a bad law though.
"All such retail establishments must accept legal tender when offered as payment by the buyer."
In all seriousness, I don't understand why you're so triggered by this Carmine. Just because you were mildly inconvenienced when you went to a baseball game and disagree with the policy that inconvenienced you, it doesn't mean there's a conspiracy involved. Seems like a pretty inconsequential issue to me.
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