In Australia, a retailer will only hand you cash if you pay using EFTPOS (analagous to debit in USA parlance, but is a domestic bank network) which has a very l

In Australia, a retailer will only hand you cash if you pay using EFTPOS (analagous to debit in USA parlance, but is a domestic bank network) which has a very low fixed fee per transaction. That is, if the transaction is happening anyway, an additional "cash out" component has zero bank fees and thus zero cost to the retailer; it may even be desirable if it lowers their cost/risk involved with banking cash. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFTPOS#Cash_out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFTPOS#Cash_out