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. 1 year ago
Sad part is cash is expensive to manage in small business. Not only do staff have no cash handling skills, can barely count and have quit under the "pressure" of getting it right, but management have to be constantly auditing the tills. Paying people to incorrectly count is brutal. Plus you have to have a dedicated float that just loses value to fill tills and break bills. Deposits have to be reconciled. Then there is the security of deposits, bank drops and getting coinage. Total pain in the ass.

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I know, especially in America, where there are no sales apprenticeships. I'm used to German sales clerks and waitstaff "counting back change" (and I was taught to do this, as well), but Americans will usually just hand me money, "Here you go." 🙈 This "one neat trick" is arguably the reason why Germany still runs on cash.
Computerised cash modules fix this, and are cheap out of China and widely used by vending machines etc. More small business owners should use them instead of manual cash registers.