OT: NSA story keeps getting bigger...

[Matt Graham]

From: Derek Trotter 
> Keep doing that and it won't be long before you encounter someone
> behind the register who says no [cash].

A furniture store in Arlington, VA in 1996 or so refused to take cash
payments.  Credit cards and checks were the only things they'd accept.  They
did this to remove costs for having Brinks/Garda show up every so often, and
to prevent employees skimming off the top--or at least that's what the manager
said.

My first tech-support job in 1998 had color printers/copiers and the ability
to make transparencies.  People wanting these things could not pay in cash. 
They had to load money onto a chip+PIN card, then pay for their
color/transparencies with that card.  This was probably to prevent us starving
students from skimming off the top, or to reduce the lab's liability, or
because some muckety-muck really wanted to increase usage stats for the
mostly-useless chip+PIN cards.

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