Obviously this is about the power outage in Spain.
While normally, if a card declines, people would probably have to leave their IDs with the restaurant while they went to get a withdrawl from their bank; this is a power outage, withdrawls wouldn’t work. It would be silly to arrest people because of a power outage. So I’m assuming people just have to give the restaurant owner/management their identity info with a promise to pay?
And power outages shouldn’t affect buses, since they run on gasoline/diesel, but the payment system processing transit passes might not work. Do buses still get run during a power outage and they just let people on for free, or do they just shut down the bus lines?
This is one reason to keep some cash on hand.
I feel like cashless societies would be in chaos.
ahem China 👀
I wonder if they would ever add an “offline mode” to the Wechat Pay thing. I mean atleast society can, sort of, function for a few hours running on powerbanks.