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Please tell me this is a joke! 
It’s a joke. For now.
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Just add 1-3 stories of housing on top of three or so of those buildings and I’ll agree lol🤞🏽
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YES, I DO ACTUALLY LOVE THIS!!! 
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Would be great if City Market decided to sign some new active leases to go along with that paint.
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Very Charlestonian. Lovely.
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There’s a lot of interior work being done in that building as well. I don’t think I’ve seen the owner of City Market ever fix up anything just because it needed it. I’d assume that they’ve already got a potential renter in place. But, that’s just speculation.
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Glad they didn’t touch that historic ATM covered in plywood and staples…
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Market Hall needs to cease being an event space and revert back to being a restaurant…period.
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Or all the way to a market hall!!
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Those old portable ATMs are going to be literally historic in a few years when we finally get beyond the need for cash!!
/sarcasm
I’ve been waiting for the demise of cash since I was, I don’t know, 20? The late 90s?
But seriously, some things that will literally soon be historic - Agrobacterium-mediated GMOs, for example - will never actually become old enough to fall under “historic” guidelines.
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I can’t stand cash except as a souvenir or historic artifact. Like I have a few odd coins from the 1800s and a Cuban peso, etc…which is neat, but cash is so incredibly inconvenient. Whenever I get cash I immediately deposit it so I can use it like real money. I understand some people need cash because they’re poor and not in normal systems, but there’s ways to mitigate that. Other people use it to not pay their share of taxes, which isn’t my business, but also not something I need to worry about for them. Going to Scandinavia/Iceland a few months ago was so refreshing. Not only do they speak better English than a lot of people down here in the South, but everything was cashless. Went to 4 countries with 4 currencies and tapped my 1 card everywhere. It was great. Went to the State Fair this week and somehow they still have cash only stands. Mind-blowing.
/End rant.
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when Helene hit western NC the only way to pay for things was cash. Right before Hugo hit Charlotte back in 1989 I got some cash and good thing I did. With the power out they only way to buy was with cash. Today yes even in Raleigh many places give a cash discount as those debit and credit cards cost small businesses money via interchange fees. So cash will be with us a LONG time to come. When the internet goes out there is no CC or debit processing unless they have a mobile phone hookup.
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The world has changed a bit since 1989. And businesses should build in credit card fees (and employee fees) into their pricing.
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So you have been to Germany?
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Its easier to cook your books with cash. These businesses are evading taxes not credit card fees.
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Embrace the power of “and” …
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