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		seanmcdirmid on July 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is It Time to Kill the Penny? > Cash accounts for less than half (44%), by volume, of transactions in Canada. That’s about where the USA is as well. Cash is used in 31% of consumer transactions. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/06/spike-the-dollars-obit-cash-... Anecdotally I haven’t carried cash around in years.

blaser-waffle on July 14, 2020 [–]

> Anecdotally I haven’t carried cash around in years.

Generally I keep a $40 in the wallet just in case there is a cash-only situation, but that's literally just a backup -- 99% of transactions are on some kind of card.

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