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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
I don't understand this part of the post. I think that most people, like myself use credit cards today. I would love to see the percentage of credit card / cash transactions at gas stations. However, as the OP stated, that is not the issue.
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Paying cash is a family tradition. My ancestors, going all the way back to the stone age, never used credit cards. And I intend to uphold that tradition. I have never had a credit card.
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What I don't understand is all this waiting in line and overpaying. If you are gong to pay cash, you pump your gas, then go inside to pay. You wait in line whether you have the correct change or not. When you get to the register, you pay and you get your change. I don't see where you would wait in a separate line to get change and I don't see where having the exact change would make the first line any shorter.
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I always buy gas at the Shell stations, as instructed by my car dealer, and I doubt you can pump gas without paying first. That's because the price of gas went so high people would fill up and drive off without paying.
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If you want to save time, use plastic. It's the future of business. Soon there will be no cash. In fact, I've been to some gas stations that have a sign that says, "Cash Not Accepted". That's how they are trying to save people's time.
The extra time it takes you to pay is caused by your insistence of using cash, an outdated technology.
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Some people are looking ahead to a time when people won't have any privacy. Privacy will die when cash dies. Your every move can be tracked. Everyone will have cell phones too - another tracking device. Overhead cameras in all business areas and downtown street corners. All of your medical information is now being stored on computer. You can find all of this information and more on a documentary DVD in the Sumter Library System.