Reply #74: A traveller's check isn't cash, it's a traveller's check.

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I've encountered stores that won't accept them before, usually because of undertrained clerks or because they've been ripped off with fake ones before. It's a pain in the ass, but no law says they have to accept it.

As to the emergency situation, I agree with you, but it is NOT an example that is pertinent to the discussion of whether or not gas stations accept cash, nobody mentioned extenuating circumstances above, and to bring it into the discussion now is not really germaine to the argument.

I believe that the station normally accepted cash, but (as heinous as it may be) changed their policy as a response to the crises/evacuation. Without knowing what their normal policy is, it's not really a valid example though.