The chain’s Main Street location adopted cash-free transactions as soon as it opened last fall. When that was well-received among customers, Koizumi implemented the same policy at their Robson Street location, and will soon introduce it at their Bidwell restaurant as well. In Seattle, a high-end Starbucks has been experimenting with cash-free transactions since last week. According to a 2017 report from Payments Canada, the number of cash transactions have trended downward since 2011 while credit-card and debit payments have gone up. Cash transactions accounted for 31.2 per cent of all 2016 transactions, down 10.6 per cent from 2011.

Source: Daily Sun January 21, 2018 22:30 UTC