Sainsburys checkout lady said that “lots of people are switching back to cash just now”

[Harpings]

I know it’s just one checkout person. But is this something others have noticed/ are doing? Just wondering if so and why it would be ?

On the local radio station the other day, I heard a butchers saying they’re only taking cash now. As it was costing them just over £300 in bank charges from their customers using the card machine.
Their customers were all very supportive and said they will try and pay cash now as they weren’t aware and wanted to support the local business.

Revolution, innit? Sticking it to the crypto currency man. Nobody wants a cashless society so we are revolting!

Yeah it's but daft....

Not something I have noticed, but would not blame people for doing so as a means of budgeting.

Fucktonne easier to use a card than struggle into anywhere to use a bank or cashpoint. Especially when a lot of BB spaces are near cashpoints, so an open invitation for the "just a minute" (not the radio show) crowd to show off their parking chops.

I've just helped a friend setup Google Pay on their phone so they don't need to put the card in the machine to enter a PIN if it asks. 100 times easier for them to tap and fuck off than play guess the coin with fucked eyes and fingers.

Just for some BBC style balance.

We try to use cash were possible. Obviously it's impossible online or paying for big stuff like holidays etc. Went to a local beauty spot recently and the cafe and ice cream van there only took cash, fair amount of disappointment from people who only had card with them.

Also I hope everyone here has 100% trust in the government? Because if you don’t give a shiny shit about a cashless society you better had

And if you have 100% trust in the government, what about the one after it and the one after that and the one after that? the issue with Coutts and Farage has shown that banks are already operating their own form of social credit and can make you a non-person with a keystroke.

I swapped to using cash this month for all purchases, other than direct debits that are already set up. I did it to help with budgeting. I didn't realise it was a thing! So far I've spent less, despite it being school holidays. I need to plan ahead and I have two bank cards on me always, just in case. I've had a few bewildered looks from shop assistants.

I had to use a launderette last week for the first time in decades. Gone are the days of needing various coins to operate the machines - all cashless.

Who uses checkouts lol

As others have said you definitely spend more carefully with cash, Its so easy to just go tap, tap when your out & about & before you realise it you've blown £20/£30.

This is obviously personal to that kind of person. I don't find that at all. I'm careful with all spending, whether card or cash these days!

Personally I'm more careless when it comes to storing and using the change when it comes to cash.

Using monzo means I pay the exact amount, don't lose pence each time, and have a record of what I've spent (which can be broken down into categori)es and compared to previous months

Exactly the same here. You always see the generalisation on threads like this that ‘it’s easier to budget with cash’ and ‘you’re more careful when spending cash’, but it’s not true for me at all.

Yes. I'm exactly the same!

I can't see the connection. Deciding whether or not to buy something and the method of paying for it is a separate thought process.

I use a mix and will use cash for small purchases

It used to be that you were a nuisance if you used a card for a small transaction but not now

I think when it comes out of a current account, attached to overdraft etc it's easier to be mindless

If you have a stash of cash, or an account with an app and set amount, you can visually see what you're spending and if you're getting close to the limit

Again, not for me. When I spend from my current account, my remaining balance goes down. That’s enough to understand that it’s my money that is being spent.
Spending cash doesn’t change the ‘available balance’ in my bank account, so I find it far easier to hand over.

Yup another reason cash doesn't work for me!

I recently got a decent amount from selling a kitchen appliance (didn't really know how to organise bank transfer in this instance but would have prefered it) and honestly it just got frittered away

Yes, I sold lots of baby equipment on Facebook marketplace and all the cash just got frittered!

But if you'd not had the cash, you'd have paid for the things you bought with your bank account?

Or are you saying you bought things because you had cash on you, that you wouldn't have done if not?

Yep, I bought stuff I wouldn’t have done otherwise, just because I had the cash in my purse. Because it’s not coming off the bottom line of my bank account it doesn’t feel like real money 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think that probably depends what part of the country one is in. I'm in a small town in West Wales and literally can't think of a single business here that would refuse cash - though I can think of one that refuses to take anything other than cash. Caught by me by surprise when I was elsewhere for a few days recently (ie in Norwich) and had ordered myself a coffee in a cafe before I realised they were refusing to take cash - darn as I'd realised when I was also in Exeter recently and wanting to buy refreshments from a cafe there, but I saw their notice in time refusing cash (and so was able to walk on and choose another place instead of them). Then we've got the local building society here (ie the Welsh one) - and they literally refuse to take card payment when putting money in in person and the choice is to pay them in either cash or cheque and so I duly do.

I've switched to cash. I take out a set amount on Friday and I use it for the week. It makes me think a lite bit about what I'm spending and when it runs out I stop.

We used to put everything on the credit card and pay it in full at the end of the month. The credit card bill was enormous, we couldn't remember what most of the purchases were and there was a massive overspend due to it just being 'beeped without a thought.

I'm a housewife and I'm trying to convince my husband that cash will make be budget, which will then lead to meal planning ,which will reduce waste. The silver lining will hopefully be that I will not have to fret what to cook for dinner each day. Ha!

The debanking fiasco has certainly made me think - though it's now quite some years since I found out from personal experience that we don't have the right to freedom of speech we're always told Britain has (a would-be employer and then an employer I was working for subsequently both clobbered me one for exercising my right to freedom of speech in MY own time!!!!). So debanking worries me - and I've duly transferred enough money to live on for some time over to our local old-fashioned little building society (so that I could withdraw cash at intervals to live on whilst I waited for the culprit bank to be sorted out or another bank to take me on as a customer).