The city recently placed a ban on cashless businesses after it decided that only accepting electronic payment methods and not cash discriminates against customers, including lower-income residents, who do not have bank accounts or credit cards.
Now cashless stores, like Amazon's high-tech Go stores, are required to accept payment in the form of cash in San Francisco.
Shopping at an Amazon Go promises a cash-free, in-and-out experience with minimal human interaction by entering and paying through an app on a smartphone.
You can still use the app to shop at an Amazon Go in San Francisco, but now the company has rolled out a way for customers to pay in cash, even though the stores aren't outfitted with checkout counters or dedicated cashiers.
We visited an Amazon Go in San Francisco to see how smoothly the process would go and ended up spending 10 minutes trying to pay for a $1 can of Sprite with cash.
An Amazon spokesperson told Business Insider in an email that "we're new at accepting cash, and since our stores weren't designed around this payment method, we're learning and testing as we go."
