{"id":8423,"date":"2025-07-20T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8423\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:45:09","slug":"the-demographics-that-still-use-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8423\/","title":{"rendered":"The demographics that still use cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 20, 2025 \u2013 8.00pm<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription -d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>On John Street in Sydney\u2019s Cabramatta, cash is still king. The main strip, flush with hole-in-the-wall eateries, is bustling in the early afternoon. A butcher painstakingly collects a dozen or so coins in exchange for a cut of meat, picking up the fiddly 5\u00a2 pieces that have slipped onto the meat display counters.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of shops have signs outside warning that they do not accept credit cards \u2013 cash only, please. Others, like eatery Sen Viet, say they have Eftpos before rummaging through boxes to bring out a disconnected machine. Almost every transaction is made in cash, even at the few vendors who accept card payments with a hefty surcharge. \u201cNinety per cent of customers always pay cash,\u201d says Pok\u2019s Sweets owner Ngoun Viengkhou.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 20, 2025 \u2013 8.00pm Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}