Yesterday, San Francisco voted to ban cashless stores and restaurants. In today's Essential California, sherlyholmes examines the trend of businesses going cashless, and who it excludes.
Exterior photo of the Twitter building in San Francisco.
Sure, you can barely afford your rent, and the condo construction down the street means there’s worse news to come. But amid gentrification wars, rapid displacement, crushing homelessness rates and the occasional EPCOT-ization of cultural authenticity in our downtowns, relatively little ink has been spilled over the cashless trend — and what it says about the future of our cities. toTake Organic Coup, for instance. It’s definitely not dirt-cheap, but with most meals priced at $9.
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