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Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by mwalimu@baraza.africa to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Norgur@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What good is cash gonna do if the networked cash register doesn't open anymore?

[–] dukethorion@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have paper and pens that they can track their transactions until the system is fixed.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl -1 points 1 year ago

Somebody's never worked retail. Yeah, there's no way they'll do that. Maybe at a small independently-owned store? Otherwise, there's no way they're even allowed to do that!