People who don’t carry their bank cards with them

@ohdamnitjanet 😆

Nobody would spend their entire weekend in a supermarket (unless staff??) but yeah when you gotta shop you gotta shop. Or starve.

You’re obviously just here to be a pathetic pain in the arse.

I keep cash in the back of my phone case so at least I could get essentials in this situation.

@PrimitivePerson you're right I was thinking of the tube card clash warning!

Why? That’s when most people are off work and have time to shop. Do you send your staff to Waitrose to do yours?

I redesigned my bag recently. I’ve got my id and one card easily accessible. Everything else is in a really minimalist wallet at the very bottom of my bag. So I still carry them, just not as easy to grab. I also still carry around a bit of cash just in case.

Of course you’re not! 😂

??? Almost everyone I know carries their bank card. Also, as pps have said, they couldn't use them anyway if 'the system is down.'

I carry about £100 cash - always - because my debit card has failed me a number of times, and left me looking like a twat on the end of the checkout. Sometimes, it's my own fault - not enough money in current account, sometimes it's my bank, sometimes it's the shop at fault.

I have no credit cards, and no banking on my phone, and have no intention of getting any of these.

I take my bank card but rarely take my phone if I am just popping to the shops. How old fashioned am I?

This! The issue is nothing to do with people not carrying bank cards 🤦‍♂️

did you...not read the OP?
Sometimes, as in the exact scenario she described, that's not the case

And oddly, in the Olden Days, nothing ever happened that prevented you paying for your groceries in cash. These days a simple power cut leaves people behaving like gibbering idiots.
I personally don't feel fully dressed on a trip to the stores without my shoulder strap hand bag, which means I always have cards and cash and phone as well as tissues, eyebrow pencil, ballpoint pens, ibuprofen, sticking plasters and other things without which life is impossible.

Absolutely!

I agree. If you can put a phone in your pocket you can squeeze a card in too.
And if you really can’t be arsed then don’t complain when things don’t go your way.

No, you're not. Contactless payment systems can't take payments from 2 sources for the same transaction.

I'm in London but I always carry some cash and a card. It's just always in my small handbag so I don't think about having to take anything extra. I'd never leave the house without it even to do the school run, I never know if I might want to pop in a shop on the way back. I don't use my phone to pay for anything as it's quite old and battery life is unreliable. I almost never use cash if I can pay by card, but there have definitely been a few places where I've needed cash even in London.

I have an almost identical phone case to teen DD. It's not a wallet type one, it's silicon I think, just the one that covers the back and the edge of the phone. Easy to put a note or a card in it

If you keep your card in the back of your phone case then every time you tap your phone you're paying twice.

I always have my card but rarely my phone.

Although can't use it to pay so that's a moot point!

I have no interest in being able to pay with my phone!

CheeseCakeSunflowers
I believe that 100%. People don't listen, they don't take notice.
Where l work, we actually ran out of 'bags for life' a few weeks ago. One man kicked off saying we 'should have put a notice on the door'.
But l guarantee if we had, nobody would have read it, or actually processed the information.
It's the same on a Sunday when we close at 4pm. We put out tannoy calls 30, 15, 10, and 5 minutes before we shut. And every week, without fail, people are wandering round after we've closed, and they'll say "Oh! I thought it you shut at half past....."
People don't pay attention, or assimilate information.

Because in this day and age you expect the card server to be fully back up with a seamless bounce to multiple data centres if one goes down. The problem isn't people going digital it's the infrastructure not being updated! We had a major issue at work with a Microsoft update so imagine these companies are experiencing the same, luckily our IT fixed it quickly.

You can get the Apple MagSafe ones, I have a couple that stick on the back of the phone if I didn't want my purse but that is quite rare. I don't think only OAPs have them

If I'm out for a quick coffee or to drop DC to school I just have my mobile and a single key. If I pass by grocery shop otw and the system is down then not a biggie.
But I would normally carry 1 cc/dc and £5/£10 note/some coins if I venture out further afield. That's my back-up just in case.

No cash here. its a faff to try and find a cash machine. anywhere local to me that had taken a stance of cash only have either closed or relented and taken a card machine. one friend of a pub that now takes card said they get people in for a drink realise its only cash and stay for one drink before moving on now takes card people staying longer. my purse has been stolen three times so now its either my phone or watch. its far easier. even the local street flower sellers have sum up machines now. its the way things are gone. took money out to buy something in a charity shop and bloody machine charged me 2.50e for taking 20e. I was like fick that. no issues with paying by card. however being rude to staff is not on

The Sainsburys where I work did, I spent 2 hours this afternoon stood by the front door saying "cash only today" to every customer who walked in, I now have a sore throat, some customers nodded saying they had heard the news, some read the large sign stood in the doorway before they reached me, some dodged round the sign then looked amazed at my words, some had a bit of a moan and some completely blanked me, presumably they were the ones who then had a go at the checkout staff when they couldn't pay. My favourite was the gentleman who on hearing my message said "Ooh Laa Laa" and continued in.

I have an almost identical phone case to teen DD. It's not a wallet type one, it's silicon I think, just the one that covers the back and the edge of the phone. Easy to put a note or a card in it