Cash is king is a statement that individuals under 30 are kicking to the curb. I worked at Publix as a cashier for several years and young people are RARELY using cash.
I'm just a young dumb millennial that is getting 10% cash back on fuel in Q1, Q2 10% back at grocery stores, Q3 10% at restaurants & Q4 10% at membership stores & Amazon.
I'll be using all the cash back I accrue on my Discover card and using that towards whatever I have remaining on my car loan.

I don't like dealing with cash or paying with it. Conveniently enough I don't find myself at cash-only snack bars too often.

I've yet to see Federal reserve notes refused.
Cards are nice I suppose,those dead presidents NEVER go out of style buying supplies and such.

I've yet to see cash put cash back in my pocket and the vast majority of establishments do not offer a cash discount(3% typical merchant fee). The ones that come to mind that offer a cash discount are the exception not the rule gas stations & some online gun stores.
By supplies, I assume you're talking about guns, ammo etc, the cat is out of the bag, big brother & the jewish freemason lizard people marxist pinko scum media already knows you own firearms by your mere presence on this website. The "guilty" by association thing.

I will be using my cash back to pay down debt & travel for free. I suppose that's kinda cool.

I am not sure if cash is accepted at the Amazon store and I understand they're in a beta testing phase but Amazon typically doesn't invest in lame ducks, stores that DO NOT take cash I believe are coming. https://www.geekwire.com/2018/report-amazon-eyes-additional-amazon-go-stores-seattle-los-angeles/
https://www.cnbc.com/2013/11/12/cash-only-business-owners-risk-100-billion-mistake.html

Congrats on being “smart” with your credit cards. Most people aren’t and that’s why they offer those great incentives. They get people on the hook, life happens, and then your paying an outrageous interest rate on debt you never intended to have.

I have. I responded to a call one evening when a man called the police because the clerk refused to take a $2 bill. He said he wouldn't have called except the clerk told him "Yous must think I's stupid. Aint know such thing as a $2 bill." or something very similar to this. I explained that it was real and my Grandmother used to send us one on our birthdays. She was still skeptical so I took the man's info and told her that if it was not real, I would personally arrest him for counterfeiting. She accepted it and I never heard another word about it.

Flabbergasted

I tried to pay for my food in Krystal one night with a few half dollar pieces one day. She looked at them and asked me what they were. They had to get the manager for that one too.

I have had cash refused. I went to buy over $1000 worth of pipe and the guy wouldn't take cash. I had to use my card to pay for it. This from an established business near Bessemer.

Yeah but was the mom hot?

Now that's odd. Is/was Bessemer a rough area? Could it be that the owner didn't want the liability of cash on the premises? Just thinking out loud.

I went to a Cullman high baseball game last week with my son and his cousin. Gave the high school girl working the gate a $20 and she had to break out her phone calculator to figure up the change. My 8 year old promptly called her out on needing a calculator. She said math wasn’t her strong area. At least she’s honest.

Blue cross will not accept cash payments.

I will admit, I have been so tired I have had to use a calculator to do simple math.

Jawbone beat me to it. If you really want to mess up their heads, give them a $2 bill and wait.

When I used to travel a bunch I would carry $2 bills for tips. I would either get thanked with some comment on it, or stopped and asked why I was giving out fake money.

How was the burger at the Vestavia concessions? One of the best burger joints in the city is right down the hill from there. Probably should of waited and gone there.

Graybar in Huntsville don't accept cash. Not sure of their many other locations.

Back a few years ago (maybe 7-8) when the dollar coins were widely available I had plenty of folks look at them like a cow looking at a new gate.

Perfect analogy...ole cow will eyeball the hell out of a new gate, LOL!