Was this refusal of a normal cash transaction, or something silly (unreasonably large transaction/transaction all in one cent coins/transaction which would raise money laundering alarms etc)? Like, if you try to pay 10,000 dollars in cash, or, say, buy a stack of prepaid debit cards with cash, most places are going to be sceptical of that.
a small shopping trip with ordinary items totaling less than thirty dollars, actually. Many places of various kinds in California are not accepting cash today - San Francisco passed local law to require accepting cash as one result.
