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Modern cashier's machines do accounting pretty well. But looking at businesses I visit - old good pen&paper seem to work great as well.

• orwin 4y ago
  Yes, but modern cashier's machine are more expensive (again, in France) than this new white terminal the new businesses around me uses. > old good pen&paper seem to work great as well I think that for food businesses in brick and mortar shops in France, if you take cash, you have to get a cashier's machine. Not 100% sure that's true but that's the explanation i got from a bubble tea shop who didn't take cash.
  • mantas 4y ago
    Cashier's machine is one-off purchase. You can get a really cheap 2nd hand. Meanwhile card processing embraced subscriptions all the way. > I think that for food businesses in brick and mortar shops in France Even tiny food businesses have quite a few transactions in a day. Wit weird sums that may make cash painful in other ways. €6.71 is fast by card than counting coins and queue length may matter at peak times. I was talking more about, for example, hairdresser where amount is square and there're very few transactions in a day.