There are a few places around me that get angry when you try to pay with anything except a credit card + their disloyalty card. I stopped patronizing those places.
Technically there are laws that require them to accept cash as it is legal tender.
Also, there are agreements with the credit companies that disallow there to be a minimum $ amount for a purchase (store's hate this because they get really screwed on fees when you buy something for $2 on a credit card).
But yeah, if I go somewhere and they don't accept cash ill just politely let them know I won't be back.
(In the USA)
There are no laws that say they have to accept cash, unless some municipality or other local governing body makes that rule. The notice on currency means that if you incur a debt, then the bill is acceptable as legal payment. Other arrangements may override that, if you sign a contract to pay in mangalica swine and then try to pay in cash, the person to whom you're indebted can demand payment as agreed.
The key word here is debt. That means something has changed hands, be it a good or service. Bringing items to a cashier and trying to buy them isn't a debt because they're not yours until they are paid for. The store is well within it's rights to demand you pay in whatever method they post.
Going to a restaurant, eating a meal, and trying to pay with cash only to be told they don't take it (and it's not posted that they only take card, etc.) is a debt and you're well within your rights to claim they refused your payment - especially if it's not clear they only accept cards.
There's no rules about cash where I live, if a store wanted to take credit card only then they are well within their rights to do so.
Good to know. Maybe im mis-remembering it or maybe it was a local rule where I used to live. Ill have to look into that.
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