Cabela's - Garner

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I stopped by the Cabela's store in Garner today to pick up some paper targets. Out of curiosity I checked out their ammo stock and prices. $35 for a 20 rd box of .223 ball and $29 for a box of 7.62x51 ball seems a bit steep to me, but at least they have some ammo.

When I went to the checkout counter and paid with cash, the woman at the register said she had no coins to give back to me so I was out .68. I asked her if I got a voucher or something, but she said 'nope' and started talking to the guy behind me in line. It was obvious that I was dismissed. I walked over to the customer service counter and the lady there gave me my change but really, couldn't the store tell the checkout folks to direct people there if they ran into that situation?

.68 wouldn't put me in poverty, more the principle of thing.
 
A couple of months ago I went through a McDonalds drive thru and they didnā€™t have change, so they rounded it down to the paper bills. I actually felt bad. I was about $.80 to the good.

As much as I have resisted for lo these many years, I put it on a card now.
 
fieldgrade said:
A couple of months ago I went through a McDonalds drive thru and they didnā€™t have change, so they rounded it down to the paper bills. I actually felt bad. I was about $.80 to the good.

As much as I have resisted for lo these many years, I put it on a card now.
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That's possibly their intent. The other closed registers all had signs stating 'no cash accepted'.
 
as i have posted before about problems paying with cash....

1. our old dry-cleaner went "card only", no cash at all, so we go to a different one.
2. the newest grocery store in town has 8 card-only checkout lanes and 3 cash. the self-checkouts are all cards.
3. regarding the OP question...i agree with rufrdr. on purpose and with intent.
 
One of my children worked in Sweden for a couple years and just came back late last year. The country is essentially cashless. Most places won't accept it.
 
I say this as someone that likes cash for budgeting fun money like gun expenses:

Going cashless is pretty much inevitable.

Cash costs money to manufacture, money to transport, money to secure, and is used in increasingly fewer transactions. Itā€™s a fiat currency with no intrinsic economic value. Thatā€™s why itā€™s being phased out. Businesses donā€™t have to deal with transporting and securing a non-fungible piece of paper or pot metal.

If youā€™re worried about surveillance/privacyā€¦ well, unless you donā€™t have a cell phone, never use the internet, donā€™t have a bank account, never drive on roads with traffic cameras, and avoid all stores with CCTV, you have nothing to be worried about.
 
The store's lack of coins is not your problem! They should have eaten the 32 cents.

JRV said:
If youā€™re worried about surveillance/privacyā€¦ well, unless you donā€™t have a cell phone, never use the internet, donā€™t have a bank account, never drive on roads with traffic cameras, and avoid all stores with CCTV, you have nothing to be worried about.
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Just "lie back, and think of England."
 
True storyā€¦. Friend was buying a ā€˜29 Ford Roadster with cashā€¦. None of his local bank branches had enough cash for him to withdraw $12k. The bank just said they donā€™t keep that much cash on hand any more - no explanation was given.

He had to request the bank prepare for the withdraw or something like that. Maybe itā€™s a CA thingā€¦. Maybe itā€™s a Fed rule thingā€¦. Odd that he couldnā€™t get access to his cash easily.
 
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RacerX said:
True storyā€¦. Friend was buying a ā€˜29 Ford Roadster with cashā€¦. None of his local bank branches had enough cash for him to withdraw $12k. The bank just said they donā€™t keep that much cash on hand any more - no explanation was given.

He had to request the bank prepare for the withdraw or something like that. Maybe itā€™s a CA thingā€¦. Maybe itā€™s a Fed rule thingā€¦. Odd that he couldnā€™t get access to his cash easily.
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Pretty soon you will only have what they say you have. This cashless business is very disturbing.
 
rufrdr said:
That's possibly their intent. The other closed registers all had signs stating 'no cash accepted'.
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Iā€™m sure it is. I was quite militant about it and posted my rants here a few years ago about cash, IDā€™s being scanned, etc, but I arrived at the same conclusion as @JRV during this covid debacle.

Iā€™ll tilt at windmills for a while, but eventually I move on.
 
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Walmart in Whiteville NC has Winchester white box ball for $21 a box And they have all the change they need. Friend works in fed reserve and he has enough change sitting around now that none is being requested by merchants or banks.
 
If you donā€™t have an Emergency or a Shortage, just make one up. It is the nature of our self-serving government.
Sort of like BST and Gunbroker sellers. If they be broke, then all of a sudden that 66-2 S&W they have for sale, with dings and dents from the last cop who owned it, is RARE! That means Diapers Down for the sucker who believes that a model that was made in beaucoup numbers, is actually hard to locate.
Good mind trick, but after seeing ā€œRAREā€ on M-1 Carbines for sale, you can GoogleFu and find out how many millions were made. They didnā€™t all get destroyed in combat, dumped into the ocean, or brought back in every duffel bag that came back from over there. RARE is a figment of the imagination. Paying for RARE, unless it is for a piece of steak, is a foolā€™s errandšŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø
 
RacerX said:
True storyā€¦. Friend was buying a ā€˜29 Ford Roadster with cashā€¦. None of his local bank branches had enough cash for him to withdraw $12k. The bank just said they donā€™t keep that much cash on hand any more - no explanation was given.

He had to request the bank prepare for the withdraw or something like that. Maybe itā€™s a CA thingā€¦. Maybe itā€™s a Fed rule thingā€¦. Odd that he couldnā€™t get access to his cash easily.
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So many senior citizens and other folks have been victims of cash transaction scams, they want to try to limit that, when I worked the teller line up north we had about $130K in the vault, 30K of it large, $50 and $100. After the weekend drops we would ship out $100K or so. During Christmas time we'd count bags at the mall branch, shipped out $1.5 million in cash. The coin and cash shortage is manufactured to get us to use plastic.
 
I see the Fed is talking about introducing a digital dollar. Is the intent to replace physical currency with digital currency on a one to one basis or inflate the money supply by generating digital dollars on top of the existing currency in circulation? I'm so confused....
 
What's the difference between a non-fungible digital token of fiat value and a non-fungible paper token of fiat value? They're both fairly insecure, but one requires physical production and physical security throughout the entirety of its circulation. One is also capable of being misplaced and completely irreplaceable.
 
Sold a Tahoe, the buyer didnā€™t have all the cash in hand & his bank wouldnā€™t let him remove more than $3K per day.
I wonā€™t put my truck fund in the bank.
 
turkeydance said:
when the power is out, digital is out.
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Absolutely. And if I lose a wad of cash, it's gone. I cannot misplace a digital token in the same way. Everything is a compromise. Minted coins and paper money were a compromise so people wouldn't need to trade actual precious metals.
 
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