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Tills can be opened manually. Calculators can be used instead of the till. Or a UPS can be used to power a simple till.You all know that modern cash tills work on registering transactions via the internet, right? And they use electricity to power them. So if there is a major disaster then cash will only be used as a barter system between private people. Shops can't process or bank it if the internet goes down.
Maybe your local corner shop could as they are probably cooking the books anyway and not logging all cash transactions anyway.
Card payments can be stored loclally and processed even if the internet goes down (on some systems). When the internet is back on, they uploads all the stored transactions.
Sweden is 90% cashless but we also have lots of different systems in place to make it easy, simple and safe for people to pay electronically.
How did we ever manage back in the old days?