Philadelphia: In the age of cashless shopping and digital payments, Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney thinks otherwise. The mayor has signed a new bill requiring stores to accept cash.The bill, effective from July 1, represents the first time a major US city is introducing a law mandating businesses to accept cash, Mashable reported. The bill seeks to address the concerns around discrimination .Philadelphia city councilman William Greenlee, who introduced the bill, said that most of the people who don’t have credit tend to be lower income, minority or immigrants, and it is a form of discrimination by businesses against them when not accepting cash. Digital payment is a convenient method to pay for goods and services. On the other hand, there is an ever growing threat to security with the mounting data breaches and targeted ads leading to mindless purchases. Philadelphia, sometimes known colloquially as Philly, is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the 6TH-most populous U.S. city, with population of 1,580,863.The city has been coterminous with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the eighth-largest U.S. metropolitan statistical area, with over 6 million residents as of 2017.Philadelphia is also the economic and cultural anchor of the greater Delaware Valley. (ANI)
