Get ready: Restaurants, ballparks, stores all gearing up to digitize their customers

Taco Bell and several other popular fast-food chains say they are angling to become digital-only, totally cashless businesses in the near future.

During an earnings call earlier this month, Fox 8 in Cleveland reported that Taco Bell’s parent company Yum! Brands addressed plans to eventually move to 100 percent digital sales at all of its restaurants.

This includes fast food chains Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC and The Habit Burger Grill, which also has units in China. Remember, it was KFC that offered to become the first restaurant to serve fake lab-grown chicken.

In an interview with the CFO Journal Chief Financial Officer Chris Turner said more customers would be forced, if they choose to eat at these garbage restaurants, to order through apps, websites or kiosks. No more walk in and pay cash.

Yum! Brands is already testing the use of artificial intelligence to take drive-through orders, the CFO Journal reported.

So you’ll soon be talking to a fake person to order fake food.

Of course the way they will try to sell you on this system is by promising to speed up the process of getting your order. Ah, convenience.

According to company officials who spoke during the earnings call, “in the U.S., digital sales have increased almost 35 percent year over year with kiosks now deployed in 100 percent of Taco Bell stores.”

The company did not say how long it would take to reach its disturbing goal.

I’ve also been told by sources who are employed at large grocery-store chains that the grocery business is also getting ready to roll out artificial intelligence to “enhance” the customer experience while scooping up tons of data on employees and customers.

I also reported last week on how Major League Baseball is implementing biometric digital IDs. Panera Bread and Whole Foods are already using the Amazon One biometric system where you pay not with cash or credit card but by waving your palm in front of a scanner. Of course the banks and credit unions will be all in with the coming digital currencies and digital IDs.

Let me know what you think in the comments below. Would you still patronize a favorite restaurant, store, bank or other business that refuses to take your cash and wants to digitize your identity?

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65 thoughts on “Get ready: Restaurants, ballparks, stores all gearing up to digitize their customers”

  1. This and Digital Currency will be the means they use described in Revelation 13 when no man can buy or sell except he that accepts the Mark of the Beast, coming soon.

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  2. Call-out the managers in view of the other customers and tell him/her that you know they had to jack up the prices to cover the processing fees because businesses will not do anything that will reduce their profits.

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    1. Pretty soon they will all be cashless in order for them to incorporate CBDC’s and get rid of cash all together. It’s a matter of time.

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  4. In the United Kingdom you can’t buy ANYTHING with cash. Cash is used only for tips. Don’t say you won’t, because you will if you want to eat once EVERY retail establishment adopts it….and that’s coming due to no pushback from those who worship ‘convenience’.

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  5. Legal U.S. tender used to have a printed notice stating, “This not is legal tender for all debt, public and private.”

    Wait. It still does.

    This might get interesting.

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    1. They don’t care. I was ready to drop $400 on my kids at Michigan Adventure this summer. I read the legal tender phrase back to the poor sap running their kiosk and then walked away. Sorry kids, Mom doesn’t play bullshit games with tyrants.

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      1. You are a brave mom and patriot. Yes, of course, cash and check are legal tender. Bravissimo for setting the example for your kids. Best role modeling possible is good action. I hope others will emulate your good deed. You represent what we all can do to stop the insanity of the evil ones. God bless you and thank you for your courage and good stewardship of God’s blessing – your children.

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  7. I would simply explain that my FRNs have plainly printed on them this message: “Legal Tender for all debts, public and private”. If they refuse to take it they have refused payment and you owe them nothing. May be corny and archaic, but it is the law of the land…

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    1. That’s what I will do. If they won’t take my cash then I’ll just take the groceries without paying, as they’re refusing legal tender.

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  8. They did away with paper bags and went to plastic to ” save the trees ” , then charged fees for bag usage , now banned plastic bags. ( Paper is renewable / reusable ).

    Recall the early cashless commercials ? Everything is running smooth until that one guy uses CASH , the line slow down , the dirty / ugly cash using Neanderthal gets dirty looks from everyone. ( This is advertising attitude manipulation )
    The reality we all have seen is the machine does not work , card declined after several attempts …… CASH IS FASTER !!
    That’s the reality on the ground.

    So now you will have all your Pizza / Grub / Subs food tracked.
    But wait , junk food will lower your social credit score ……
    But wait , NOW you will be charged MORE for ” Improper Food Choices ” and your health care will be REVOKED !!

    Cash is Freedom – Use It Or LOSE IT !

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  9. Leo:

    The only thing a conspiracy fears is the threat of exposure.

    The only thing it respects is force.

    The public needs to boycott any business that goes digital.

    We saw what a Boycott did to Budweiser and Target.

    Now if these business decide to move that way a little bit of “Jewish Fire” may get them straightened out.

    Lenny Ladner

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    1. Taco Bell you are now just for talking about it dead to me. You CEO is a son of Satan for even suggesting this. Take your coercive b.s. move in support of the Mark of the beast and go to Hell with it.

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  10. There is a plan to have a card backed by gold that will interface with the digital realm. It’s called the digital “Texan”. You would have a card just like a credit card but your money would be stored in gold in a Texas Depository. I believe there are ways we can resist and even defeat the “mark of the beast.” The Earth is the Lord’s! Psalm 24.

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    1. Hi Family. We’re in for a rough ride. I like what Monte said re gold backed card. Already dissolved a horrible money-losing 403b I had, bought Ag, Au and opened gold IRA last year. As for the prospect of starvation–God WON’T let His children starve, that’s a promise, look it up tomorrow morning in Psalms! We CAN practice leaning into suffering by fasting. It physically cleanses &changes us, ratchets up endurance for prayer. If you are ill now, or obese, proceed with supervision of natural health practitioner. Make sure you’re home is ready to seal up for even worse air quality due to geoengineering. Have real plants for O2. Tap water has been dangerous since 1960s with fluoride, but now–God help us. If you stock H20 get reverse osmosis for best. Distillation and fancy passive carbon-ceramic filters can’t remove Fl ion, but at least they’re non electric.
      Forget eating out. It’s ALL toxic. If you worked in food service for the last 20+ years, you know that! Stock simple ingredients and seriously, learn how to eat without cooking as much as possible! Learn soaking, grinding, fermenting techniques. Think “paleo” & off- grid. If zombies invade your place, they won’t steal your weird food. They won’t even recognize it. They want ramen cups, sody and flamin hot cheatoes.

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      1. Good advice. Hard to follow, but good.

        About water, for those who can afford it, a Berkey is excellent. Its filters can deal with non potable water, and you can buy fluoride filters. Clearly Filtered is a pitcher filtration system that removes everything you can imagine, including fluoride. You have to adhere to the protocol for changing the filter, but you can also stock up on filters.

        The ideal is a whole house water filtration system because we absorb so many contaminants through our skin.

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    2. All purchases will still be tracked. Every. Single. Dime…..tracked, catalogued and sold to the highest bidder while being shared with the government.

      If a business “requires” digital purchases, turn around and walk out. If you find out only once you’re reached the check-out counter, leave everything on the counter and walk out. YOU decide where you shop and what you buy.

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  11. Amen Susie!! 🙂 As I’ve been seeking the Lord about what my response, as a follower of Jesus, should be as the end of all things progresses (quickly), He has led me to Psalm 37 and Psalm 73. He is reminding me that HE ALONE is in control and sees ALL the wicked and their devices. Their day will soon come, and in the meantime He will not forsake me, no matter the circumstances. As we wait on Him, I’m praying for strength to stand, discernment to see things through His eyes and grace as I walk in peaceful non-compliance. Not going to be an easy road. But Jesus already told us that! If my response to the happenings of this evil world will only shine the light of Jesus to one soul, it is worth it!

    On the flip-side, I can’t help but get excited when I am a literal witness to His Word coming to pass! The fact that the Lord has actually put into the hearts of men to fulfill His will means that they aren’t really doing whatever they want to us. He has orchestrated it all from the beginning. The Lord was merciful to us in that He gave us the details ahead of time. Oh… what a Saviour! 🙂

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    1. You express perfectly how I feel about this! The threat of another lockdown is concerning, but I believe if enough people are awake now, we can just refuse, at least for awhile. Eventually, if Jesus leaves us here long enough, we will face some hard decisions and I pray He will give us the grace to make the right decisions.

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  12. Meanwhile, my credit card has been hacked (again), someone tried opening a bank account in my name (twice), and we just got a letter from our insurance saying our information “may” have been compromised – but don’t worry – they’re doing their best to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Also, when trying to fix all this, you waste hours online and trying to call when you can’t get a real person to talk to. Tell us again how safe going digital is.

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    1. Jill, check into freezing your credit with the 3 major credit agencies. It prevents anyone from opening accounts in your name. Then, when you want to apply for new credit, you call the credit reporting agency and give them your password to unfreeze your account. You decide how many days before the freeze is reinstated.
      Gives you peace of mind.

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  13. Local Circle K gas stations have slowly put in self checkouts in my area. Local station had two put in last week. It is creepy. It can read exactly what you have purchased and yes, is credit/debit card only.

    Sad thing that the cashier (a woman obviously turning herself into a man artifically) said she likes being a cashier and meeting people which is why she took the job. The day these registers went live she told me that if they didn’t get a certain number of purchases done at the self-checkouts that their hours would be cut.

    Sadly this person who is a good worker (sort of unusual these days in the young) is going to be out of a job.

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  14. I used to shop in Halfords here in Ireland, but during the ”scamdemic’ they refused cash saying that it was unhygienic. So, I stopped shopping there..

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  15. It wouldn’t be that difficult to boycott restaurants and stores, but banks would be tough. Unless you wanted to store all your money at home in a safe. But how to deal with automatic deposits from employers, social security or retirement accounts could be challenging.

    Looks like it’s time to get serious about stockpiling long-term supplies of food, water and other essentials because the digital-only money system controlled by central banks can’t be far behind. Then you won’t be able to go anywhere or do anything that requires finances unless you totally conform to their social credit scoring system, which will be based on luciferian values.

    Also, like some other readers have said in previous stories, create networks with like-minded people to support one another and have goods or services that you can barter with. Plus, although not everyone can do it, try to get off the grid at least for energy sources.

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    1. I refuse to do business with big corporation banks. My bank is an instate, local bank. It is not “woke” or concerned with social(ist) issues, just banking. It is also very strong and secure.

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      1. Mine also is not one of the large banks, but I was thinking that even smaller ones and credit unions – virtually all banks – will be impacted when they roll out the digital money controlled by central banks, e.g., the smaller institutions will merge or disappear altogether. Not sure when that will happen, just that it will happen.

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  16. If a large enough percentage of people refuse to comply, what would happen? They “authorities” can’t arrest dozens or hundreds of people at the same time. Be in a position to defend yourself and your family if they come on your property. Bind together as one large family of believers to support one another by providing food and water, if necessary. Stock up as much as possible and share it with others who are less fortunate. Pay down the balance on credit cards as much as you can, and put as much money as you can on debit cards. We just don’t know how bad things will get up until the rapture.

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  17. Silver, buy silver whenever possible. This will be the currency for the masses in the future. The Vatican and upper WEF have or are buying most of the gold.

    Renee

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    1. The Vatican will have to replenish the gold Trump took from the Vatican…650 planes worth of gold. Trump ended the U.S. Government, Inc. deal when the U.S. borrowed money from the Vatican around 1871. The U.S. was bankrupt from the Civil War and borrowed money from the Vatican and became a Corporation. Trump restored the original USA government.

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  18. I will not be using companies who insist on digital only services for as long as I can get by with it. This world offers me nothing I’m not willing to give up in exchange for giving up my freedoms and privacy. I’ll hold out as long as I can, but starving is another thing.

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  19. I will not take the MOTB or anything that could become the mark at a later time. I will not take anything into my body and I will not take any mark on my body that could be the mark and even if I know it’s not. I won’t go along with the scanning of the eye ball which grosses me out anyway, or the scanning of any part of my body because it just feels too much like we are the merchandise being scanned rather than the product we are buying. It is degrading you to the point of being treated like cattle, that they brand too by the way. Those who take the mark sell their soul to the devil and they are now his merchandise, bought and paid for by his system.

    For the time being we must decide what is a hill for us to die on and what is not. We use credit and debit cards as it is in many locations. Chinese Christians are already under the social credit score system which is the equivalent to a digital ID. (I just won’t take anything into my body.) Once they roll out the CBDC, that will be the money. Many people wore masks just to go into the only grocery store in town in their rural area to put food on the table. Many also gave up their jobs for refusing the jab. We can stomp our feet all day long but if we are the only one doing it, that grocery store will not relent their new rules for us. So we need to navigate the situation as it unfolds regarding those items. There are places I won’t go to anyway such as Target already. I also won’t go along with any woke agendas or ‘in-services’ in order to keep my job. We must weigh this all out in the following ways:

    1. Does doing this thing defy anything in the Bible? Does it dishonor God or His ways in any way?
    2. Does the Holy Spirit give us a nudging that we should not do it, even if we can’t put our finger on why?
    3. Does the thing deny our dignity as a human being, as part of God’s creation and even His child?
    If we answered yes to any of this, then the answer is no, we should not do it. No matter the cost.
    Now if we answered no, but there are still things that are undesirable about it, then let’s look at the next list.
    4. Is there some other business that is not too far away that we can patronize instead? Or shop online?
    5. Can we avoid the purchase altogether, such as Starbucks coffee; which is not an essential item? We can boycott the business then.
    6. Maybe there is a way around it. Exemptions are one way. I can’t (won’t) scan that part of my body because a doctor once told me I can get cancer easily that way due to a certain condition I have, etc. They will have exceptions they don’t advertise for ‘that’ person. Share that later so others can use it. It creates another avenue that is an alternative and becomes popularized.
    7. Get a petition going that does get the numbers up and put the pressure on that business to get rid of a certain item, get a protest going, leave online comments and reviews, contact the head of it via email, mail, phone, or personal visit.
    8. If it’s one of the other things below such as wearing a mask, sometimes you can say yes to get in the door, and then take it off and it becomes a no. Inside no one cares, or no one is going to know, is looking, etc. One thing I used to do with masks is not wear them over my nose. Once in a while someone would say something and yes, I could refuse and say no because of a long list of reasons, stand my ground and so on. But I would just play the game for 5 seconds to get in the door to get what I needed and then once I passed the mask gestapo, floops, off the nose it came again and they were none the wiser. It was easier than putting up a big stink over it, so I did it just for a few seconds and I moved on with my to do list. So that works in different settings.

    Many may take issue with this last one and claim that we need to get up on a pedestal and stand up on it and read them the riot act and set that example and fight the tyranny at every turn and recite to them all of our rights and make a scene over it. Sure, if it works then yes! But it usually won’t if no one else joins you. During covid I know one lady who did that with the mask and wanted into a large store and it did raise a big stink and even made it onto the evening news in the small town. Sadly she got nowhere and they had even called the police or something. They still had the rule that you could not enter without that mask. Yet inside many did just take it off and none of the employees bothered them (or us). So it depends on what will be effective and what you are willing to deal with and go through. Even if it is the principle of the thing, sometimes you still just won’t get anywhere that way. So in our town we all just defied it once inside. They turned a blind eye because what were they going to do, arrest us all and lose that much money? Some businesses even put up a front, a window dressing to make it look like they were ‘complying’ just so they would not get fined but they knew the customers were noncompliant and they were even glad. It just depends on where you are. You just have to pick your battles, you have to navigate around the situation where you are, and just make sure you don’t do anything that is wrong according to the Lord. For instance, you can’t just ‘pretend’ not to be a Christian for 5 minutes in order to get into Wallmart or to escape certain death in a middle east country! There are hills to die on and those not to die on, you must decide. If it is about telling a white lie regarding wearing a mask when I’m not, my conscience is fine. It is coming down to the point where in order to ‘escape all these things’ you will probably need to go into the wilderness the way this is coming fast and furious. As for me, I plan on getting by as long as I don’t cross any lines I have drawn. I know that it’s all going to happen and one day they will come after us anyway. Putting up our dukes over these things for now and winning a few inches of ground here or there won’t make any difference then. I’m not saying we shouldn’t, but just that don’t hold your breath that we can turn the whole tide back against the nwo that is at the door. When my day comes, I’m ready to die for the Lord. That is my finish line. And I’m not trying to erect or preserve any personal empires in the meanwhile, or anyone else’s for that matter. We need to keep it in perspective.
    It can all change overnight. Foreign troops can be on our soil in a matter of hours, carting us dissenters off to the camps that are already in place. We won’t stop it. We must weigh what matters now. Live as if this can happen tomorrow. If we were in such a place in a month, and we looked back, what would we regret about the way we are doing things today? Do something about that while you still have the time and can. If your heart does not belong to Jesus 100% and it shows, then that is where you need to start. People take everything for granted that life will just go on, business as usual, and then when it doesn’t they are hit between the eyes like the deer in the headlights. Because… you know… this was not allowed to happen…. until they were done living out their lives in a normal way, and their kids, and their grandkids, and …. and…. and. But God does not work on our timetable. He told us to watch and pray and know the signs of the times. If we don’t, that is our problem and not His. And folks, we are at the end of time.

    Be blessed.

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  20. Surprised it took this long. TPTB are going to do everything possible to hide the day of reckonning that has been in progress for 60 years. I believe the push to digital money is to cover over the coming economic implosion of our debt that Christian Larry Burkett and other teachers warned about in the 90s. They will be getting us to look over there at digital money and the CBDCs while the national and perhaps global debt implosion happens. Much of the money in our accounts will turn worthless when the implosion happens.

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  21. The world will one day operate only digitally. It can’t be stopped. Governments will ban cash and paper money as soon as they believe their digital system is sufficiently in place everywhere.

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  22. “””So you’ll soon be talking to a fake person to order fake food.”””

    And paying for it with fake money.

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    1. We don’t eat in junk food places, have been going to mom and pop diner, and cook at home.

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  23. The future is fake everything, including human beings. (I believe Bill Gates is a demon disguised as a human.)

    The wannabee totalitarians have planned long and hard for the day technology advances to the point that everything is completely fake for the masses who will be their slaves. And with the tech companies in bed with the military industrial complex and an influx of billions from its newly created billionaires to fund research into bioweapons and other means of mass destruction, they have advanced in their quest to enslave the world.

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    1. The horror of it is that it was, and is, our tax dollars that fund the grants and government contracts that enable the cabal to instigate evil against us. We pay for our own demise. And if citizens refuse to pay taxes due to this travesty of justice and moral turpitude, then jail is the consequence. Can refusal to pay for one’s own destruction be part of peaceful non-compliance? The corporations and others certainly get away with paying little or no taxes while enriching their CEO’s to an extreme degree. It is the arrogance and ruthless brutality of their mindset that is really unfathomable. Only a demonic captured culture can devolve to such lowly unthinkable treacheries. May God save America!

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    1. At WM in Mansfield, TX. Tues eve I went to self checkout as I always do but ALL of them were card only. I went to get checked out by a checker so I could pay cash. I told her the MOTB is right around the corner but she seemed lifeless and it appeared it did not register what I said.

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  25. We need a currency that is sound. The constitution has stated this and to my knowledge the dollar is not sound anymore. I am not advocating for a digital currency, but I am just saying. Plus our dollar is loaded with occult symbolism on it.

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  26. I concur that peaceful non-compliance is the right response. I wonder though how to deal with situations when people have monthly pension checks and/or social security they depend on to pay for mortgages, rent, food, gas, utilities, etc. In an interview on Frankspeech, Rebecca Walser stated that credit unions would be a better choice than banks. Yet in a later interview she told of her own challenges with her own credit union. It looks like everywhere one turns there is future trouble. Crypto? What does one use to purchase Crypto currency? What good will cash be? It does not make sense that grocery stores and other businesses would want to lose business or go out of business this time around. No, I think and pray, that people will simply say NO, and not comply. We the People can make the consequences too severe for these “useful idiots” as it is time for the pain to boomerang.

    There must be some courageous people who respect our constitution and the rule of law. There must be descendants of our brave Founding Fathers still standing. People must stand up now to this fabricated tyranny. Luciferians are cunning but very stupid and venomous for Satan is damned for eternity, at his own choosing and act, so people need to wake up to the fact that Lucifer lost Heaven and wants to destroy God”s Creation because of his hubris and jealousy. Misery loves company so he wants to drag as many humans down to the pit as he can.

    Let us pray that most will wake up in time to avoid this fatal destiny. While being peaceful in our non-compliance, we also can speak the truth. May they hear and repent, we pray. We thank Jesus Christ for His great gift of salvation, for no matter the hell on earth Satan conducts, we have the beauty of life eternal. Thank you Precious Jesus, Amen.

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    1. The Bible clearly states that folks will be forced to take a mark to buy or sell in the future. That would not be possible if cash existed. We will see cash disappear because as long as cash exists the people cannot be controlled.

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      1. Yes, that is the reason peaceful non-compliance and insistence on using cash for purchases is imperative. Cash and checks are legal tender. Our “cash”, our dollar, contains the prayer “In God We Trust” and that is what upholds our economic transactions. God is in charge, period. His manna from Heaven will prevail. Already Congress is working on getting back on the gold standard. Let us trust in Jesus Christ our Savior and the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings. No WEF/UN cabal can prevail. We know the ending and the new beginning. It all focuses on Jesus Christ the Good God, the only God and our Savior. Do not fear for He strengthens us through all trials. Look to Him and fear not.

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  27. I will not patronize any store or restaurant that doesn’t let me pay in cash. But if it’s a place where I usually shop, I would offer to pay cash; if they don’t allow it, I’ll walk out, leaving my merchandise behind. These businesses need to see former customers doing that so they realize what they’re losing. That would have a greater impact than writing to the manager or CEO.

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    1. Right on. Cash and check are still legal tender for purchases. I wonder how to persuade Congress to outlaw this digital only system. I think some legislators are working on doing just that. I think it might help to contact them as well as voting with our feet.

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      1. We can never wait for “government” to act or even act righteously. The beast system is clearly prophesied in the Bible so sooner or later it WILL arrive. I prefer later and after I’m raptured away.

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    2. “I’ll walk out, leaving my merchandise behind.” I love that idea and have already done that a few times when necessary. You are right — it really does make a statement!

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  28. It’s all about the money….Many of these stores haven’t a clue what all of this is leading to, worse draconian measures, and more loss of freedoms….Jesus Christ is coming soon for His bride, the church!…Maranatha!

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    1. Standing on: Majority of people haven’t a clue about this agenda, also agenda 2030, the WEF/UN dictator world wide, other related info. Many will comply (take the mark). Some will go into remote areas, some with several families and live off grid. Those that expect a rapture will be in for a surprise when gov. cracks down. A real issue is congress is corrupt and sold out, only a handful know the plan.

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  30. In western Canada, I have not see come across this. However in a recent visit to Utah I did see the hand scanner in the Whole Food store. Of course I would this way of shopping and paying at all costs. Some how we need government bill to protect our privacy.

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  32. I’m sometimes told that I’m shooting myself in the foot, but I’ve already stopped doing business with a number of stores due to their policies. As my worldly choices narrow (of my own volition) and the world darkens, I still have Jesus and He has me!

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    1. Same here!….I quit shopping Target a few years ago; along with others that are falling in line with the globalist agenda….Indeed, Jesus has this!…Maranatha.

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      1. I seldom go to Target now use cash. In 2013 there was a breach and bank issued me a new credit card. Caught it in time, those w/ debit some were compromised. This was around the holiday season and store wanted business and they knew about the breach and let people shop anyway.

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    2. “As my worldly choices narrow (of my own volition) and the world darkens, I still have Jesus and He has me!”

      Thanks Susie. Well said!

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