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Cash is pretty accessible where I live, but I'm always in for a surprise when I gravitate towards self-checkout and realize that it's a card-only machine.
Prepaid cards used to be my go-to online, but it seems that fewer and fewer payment processors are letting them through their "security" checks. They were also next to impossible to obtain when I was in Europe. For a lack of better options on hand, I went with privacy.com's virtual cards, which doesn't really anonymize things in the eyes of MasterCard, but I suppose it's better than nothing.
The only other thing I could think of is signing up for eBay or Amazon with a pseudonym, paying with gift cards purchased at a store with cash, and shipping to a PO box or Amazon pick-up location.
Ideally Monero, but it's not as straightforward to obtain and there's a very limited selection of vendors that accept it.