When paying for goods and services, some people use Apple Pay and others use credit cards. But for one Detroit man, he prefers to use cash, and he says some businesses are refusing to accept it.
“They just told me credit card only,” Sean Taylor said. “Put your card in the machine.”
Taylor is talking about a recent experience at a Detroit restaurant. When he was checking out, Taylor said his cash was turned away and a credit card was the only way he could pay.
Last September, the Detroit City Council passed an ordinance that said businesses in Detroit cannot go cashless.
Councilwoman Angela Whitfield Calloway spearheaded the law.
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“The cashless ban ordinance simply says you have to accept cash,” Calloway said.
But there are some exemptions.
“I do believe Ford Field, LCA and Comerica Park (should have exceptions),” she said. ‘Because when you go into their establishment before the ordinance came into effect, they already had a kiosk system, so you just insert your cash and a debit card will come out.”