After his business was robbed 5 times in 3 months, the owner of a coffee shop in Baltimore decided to stop taking cash. What happened next was a surprise - sales didn’t go down.
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Why Your Business Should Ditch Cash
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Researchers reached this conclusion by studying the federally mandated shift in welfare benefit distribution. In the 1990s, states stopped giving recipients checks—easily converted to cash—and instead allocated money to debit cards. In Missouri, this shift happened in different counties over the course of a year. A team of economists and criminologists used historical data to attribute a 9.8% crime drop to the welfare system’s adoption of electronics benefits transfer, in a 2014 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.
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