To think it’s wrong some big companies won’t accept cash?

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Just seems a bit shit.

I went to the cinema. No cash accepted. Card only.

Annoying. My preference is cash. But, some people use it to budget. Some people have it as their funds available to spend because they’ve been gifted some cash.

Seems really odd not to accept cash or advertise and make it clear on things like ticket confirmations that you don’t accept any cash

When i worked for a dealership cash was the highest percentage of the bank charges despite being a small percent of the actaul takings , it was 80p for every £100 , think they charge £1.50 now. Bank transfers are free.
Insurance company would only allow 5k in the safe overnight and if it was over something like £9k we needed 2 people to accompany the cash to the bank, then 3 over a certain amount, cant remember how it was.

He can't. He does not have the cognitive capacity to manage his financial affairs, which is why the LA is his financial appointee. If they decline/cannot be bothered to open a basic bank account for him, then he doesn't get one.

If you're suggesting a carer fills in the forms and opens an account in his name, anyone doing so would rightfully be sacked. That has to be gross misconduct.

People have been using physical currency for thousands of years. I don't think that will change any time soon.

The correct way to deal with this is to shrug and say "you obviously don't want my custom enough" and walk out.

Eventually they'll get the message.

How on earth can you make money by not giving your customers what they want? If all the potential customers choose to not use the business there is no business.

The managers at my last full-time job would have choked to read your ridiculous statement, great customer service was drilled into us (as it should be). They wouldn't have dreamt of a ban on cash.

Incidentally, I rarely use cash myself but will defend the right of others to do so if they wish. I don't live in the UK and have never come across a business which won't accept it.

Bricks and mortar retail hasn't been having a grand old time lately. Mandating that shops must accept cash would be yet another burden on a hard pressed sector and would likely mean fewer shops, particularly independent ones, stay in business.

Sorry if it's already been posted, I haven't kept up with the thread. But this is what I was referencing earlier.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwvgqz3vxzo

Because i suspect most customers who insist on cash are not that great a customer and not worth the hassle they cause.

Not necessarily block the transactions, but monitor them, use them as evidence of “illegal purchases”, ie. Easter eggs, and prosecute later. For all we know, there’s a lot of government monitoring that goes on that we don’t know about. I haven’t forgotten those adverts about benefit fraud “we know where you pick up cash in hand work, we’re on to you”.

I also remember when till receipts used to have printed on them that when using a debit card, a certain percentage is taken by the bank, probably higher for a credit card. Did something change? It used to be that plastic cards were “more expensive” for the retailer than cash. Did the reality change, or was it the narrative that changed? Perhaps the Ministry of Truth can tell us.

@NattyTurtle59

I’ll take cash or card, however anyone wants to pay

When spending I’ll generally use card, but most of the time have some cash

“How on earth can you make money by not giving your customers what they want?”

Exactly the same can be asked of cash only businesses and especially with those who print of the anti card memes

Its up to the business concerned, and with the increase of ‘complaints’ about card only businesses they are in business still

You can thank the EU for that - they capped interchange fees and banned surcharges for use of cards.

Make sure you use cash, when you pop out to buy your tinfoil hat… and dodge the Chem-trails …

Living as rural as we do, its cashless

When I moved here 20 years ago , our wee town had a host of banks - nationwide, Santander, Barclays , Bank of Ireland, Ulster bank and I think there was another - cant mind now - we now have just the one - Danske - and they are doing yet another cull so maybe that will go

We have two hole in the walls, although there are ATMS in most local supermarkets

As a low income household, we have to watch what we spend. I dont have a clue how to do a spreadsheet or anything clever like that, but the bank supplies a great app where every penny spent is allocated to a group, so I can see to the penny what I have spent on food, clothing, bills, eating out, hairdresser, car, petrol - its all there - instantly. Minute I make any sort of transaction, even if a payment goes through in the middle of the night , I get a notification - what was spent and where. I have access to that information 24/7/365 so I find it pretty easy to keep track of spending

The only places we use that are cash only are the Chinese Takeaways - there's not one that we have gone to that will take a card. Even chip carts take cards!! And Ive heard a nail bar - the ones where you just sit and wait your turn - is cash only

Mum is 86 and likes to have cash on her - why? No idea, she doesn't use it. She taps when she shops like the rest of us, she can do bank transfers easily on her phone and she's au fait with online banking ( she prefers that to apps ) . I think she just takes cash out at the beginning of the month because that's what she's always done and maybe pays the hairdresser cash ( mine takes transfers )

We were in Krakow a while back and they are pretty much cashless , even the loos took card payment

If you let cash go away, you trust the government implicitly. And not just the current government, any future government.

The government literally manufactures & distributes cash, and controls its value.

I alway have cash on me and have sometimes had to pay cash on holiday in some cafes, I generally use card though as that is easier, I have got Apple Watch but find after I have contorted my wrist over the reader that card is the easiest. I would never hope to have no cash in society though and generally the people that don't want cash, though it doesn't affect them at all if others use cash are generally not very nice people

I don't accept cash for a range of reasons :
I have a payment in advance by bank transfer policy. If I fail to provide the service at short notice, my agreement with the client is reciprocal.
Bank transfers mean it's easier to track my income for the purpose of doing my tax return, and to pay out for my necessary regular expenses.

I'm a business, not a shop where people might come in and be caught unaware not knowing what the terms are. It's nothing to do with being "nice".

I didn't mean people like you, I meant the posters that have no businesses just those that spend their own money so it doesn't matter if others use cash, card or whatever, though you knew I meant that, didn't you.

A lot of people are not able to have credit cards and it is not wise to use a debit card to pay for things because of fraud, if I didn't have credit cards I would want to use cash especially if I had only one bank account as some have.

The recent M&S debacle is proof of what could happen when you couldn't use contactless in stores and it wasn't that easy using chip & pin either

No internet/power cut and we're screwed

It wouldn't be a problem if there were still branches to pay it into

No I didn't know that. Thank you for confirming that you didn't mean people like me. And as I said, I take payment by bank transfer, not by card.

Most I've come across use cards now

It is a problem, if you have to use up to 3 people to escort cash to the bank, whether its a 10 minute walk or 30 minute drive.

If businesses had to accept cash there would be more banks.

There'd be even more if businesses had to pay employees in cash.