Dec 29, 2018 - Economy & Business

More retailers are banning cash

Customers ordering salads at Sweetgreen

Customers ordering salads at Sweetgreen. Photo: Dixie D. Vereen/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

More and more businesses like the Drybar chain of blow-dry salons don’t want your money — the paper kind at least, The Wall Street Journal's Katherine Bindley reports.

The big picture: Chain restaurants Sweetgreen and Dig Inn have stopped accepting cash at nearly all of their locations, as have a Starbucks in Seattle and some pubs in the U.K. Massachusetts is currently the only state that requires retailers to take cash, but the inconvenient and sometimes awkward frustrations caused by cash bans have prompted lawmakers in New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia and D.C. to consider taking up similar legislation.

Go deeper