by Ethan Huff, Natural News:

Despite the fact that around six million people living in the United States do not have bank accounts and are considered to be “unbanked,” a growing number of retail stores, including large, well-known big-box stores, are refusing cash and forcing customers to pay with cards or smartphones.
Upwards of one billion people worldwide currently do not have a bank account, which means that they, too, are in trouble once stores in their native lands decide to scrap cash and switch to a cashless model of digital, and easily trackable, payment systems.