Sainsburys accepting card only at manned tills [Edited by MNHQ at OP's request]

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Was in there yesterday and there was nothing advertising this was the case and i didnt know until i got my purse out at the till. Seen some tweets from other areas who also had the same experience.

Cash can still be used for self serve tills.

But happy to handle 1000's of products through the checkout.

Agree about loss of jobs, and my son's bank has told him he will have to use chip and pin more often now

I won't, I go and pay it in person, no matter the inconvenience of queuing at the moment. What do you think will happen to free banking once we are all forced into a cashless society? Plus , over a certain amount, any money you withdraw you have to prove what you are spending it on. While I understand mo at laundering, it's being taken to the extreme

If an elderly person refuses to use a debit card then what can you do? The world is moving forward and there is no way anyone can say that they can't do it. You touch the card to the screen of the reader and wait for the beep. Its like saying you can't use an automatic door. You don't have to DO anything.

I am most disgruntled of your part that they restricted your bakery items because you’d helped another costumer out! I like angel slices... no good deed goes unpunished I suppose.

On another note, I don’t know if the elderly will ever get the hang of contactless etc. It’s easy to tell them how simple it is, but it’s a world of confusion to them. We have had auto tills in our bank for many years now but there are still a queue of mostly elderly waiting for someone to help them do something simple like withdraw cash. Even my father who has an iPhone, cannot remember or get his head around how to withdraw cash from the “new machines”.

And when the system crashes? Goodbye free banking. We will not have control over our money. A generation is 30 years, there are still people who lived and managed using cash for three generations. Don't let government and media persuade you that, like they persuade us that all disability claimants are scroungers, that anyone who wants to continue to use cash have illegal motives

Contactless is simple but every five transactions, or for the larger amounts, you have to put your PIN in. That's when it gets confusing.

I think retailers will have to backtrack on this, they need to make reasonable adjustments for the elderly and disabled and I would have thought taking cash is one of them. I really don't think the virus is carried on banknotes to the degree anyone is going to catch it from them.

I watched customer use a cash machine then come into my shop, signs up requesting people pay by card. She told me she didnt have a card.

She may have had a cash card, not everyone has a debit card.

Contactless is simple but every five transactions, or for the larger amounts, you have to put your PIN in. That's when it gets confusing.

With the bloody awful Virgin Money it's every £150. Fine if they'd bothered to notify customers.

My mum (77) still gets her pension in cash; she goes to the post office and uses her pension card (I think?) to withdraw it. As she hasn’t been going out the money has built up in her account which she’s been stressing about...but at the same time she has a smartphone and uses it for FaceTime and reading the news.

She worries that the second she takes her bank card (contactless) out, someone will steal her details. She knows it’s a bit paranoid and is working on it but she’s always been used to dealing in cash - she has no problem using a cash machine. It’s just not that familiar to her so a little patience is required!

All these tearful elderly people hanging around the supermarkets just waiting to be saved by people who then brag about it on SM.
They seem to be everywhere

It’s not only elderly people that don’t have bank accounts. There were a surprising number of parents who hadn’t received money that was being paid into bank accounts for children on FSM and they didn’t have one, although some of them had Post Office accounts.

I agree with you Jessie. We should be boycotting anywhere which doesn't take cash. It's a slippery slope into losing the privacy of our transactions, another step into mass data gathering.

I don't have any illicit motives I can just see where it could easily lead. Those unlucky enough to be unemployed or disabled having their transactions scrutinized for 'unnecessary' items, denied support for buying a weekly treat, it could happen to any of us to lose our jobs or get unwell and need support. If you think this government, in their desperation to reduce welfare spending, wouldn't do this you need to have a word with yourself. They've already contributed to the deaths of some disabled people (this is a fact, proven in courts). Monitoring spending and movements is minor to them. Even if you are one of the few who know you'll never need welfare, you have the right to conduct your transactions anonymously.

Fwiw, I work in retail, I handle cash, I support the tracing app although it's potentially dodgy, because it's important.

Trying to hasten a cashless society isn't.

Also - unfathomable as it is to some - not everyone can afford internet to manage online banking with. Universal Credit can be as low as £230 a MONTH, or £300 for over 25s. That's for all heating, hot water, food, £40 a month council tax still, travel, clothing, household items, toiletries etc etc.

Internet and smartphones are not affordable for many. I know lots of people who use free WiFi in shopping centres and libraries to job search or manage their claims, and live in fear of their crappy old smartphone breaking because then they'll have to queue for an old clunky library computer and be at risk of sanctions.

I know many people who can only budget with cash and paypoint.

Neither of my grandmothers are able to use internet. One has mild dementia and the other bad eyesight.

My ex MIL cannot and has cancer so it's not foremost on her mind.

My own father only in his 50s does not trust online banking.

World Health Organisation now say minimal risk of transmission from cash. Of course government and banks want to scare the bejesus out of everyone, but its nonsense

do you know? I dont know anyone who critisizes people's choice live their lives on card, so why are there so many who denigrate those who choose (remember choice?) to continueto use cash. When we have been forced toa cashless society, your CHOICEis removed, in more ways than one. You are just sheeple

I don't think shops should be allowed to refuse legal tender. If they don't want to handle money, perhaps the staff could have disposable gloves nearby. Lots of old people prefer cash, it's often easier if a customer is shopping for several people, or if your card is lost/broken and you still need to buy food.

I walked into a garage one day, opened my purse, I was still near the door and the cashier told me I had paid? he said his card machine was sensitive? I hadnt even decided how I was going to pay? I got rid of contactless, and I know many who have. Another reason I prefer a post office account, its not online, no risk

I put my cards in one of those metal holders that can't be read by machines or scammers walking past you in the street.

@PrivateD00r I wasnt the one panicking during the Mumsnet hacks....................I dont want to online bank dont trust it There have been too many cases of hacking. Who is running the NHS app? The very woman who presided over Talk Talk during their hacking Doesnt fill you with confidence. I thought MN was all for women making their own choices. This is a state pension household and my husband is 70. He HATES the idea And after spending an HOUR AND TEN MINUTES on the phone to Nat Wests so called vulnerable helpline trying to transfer money across from his bank account to his credit card account , being sent round in circles expecting a 70 year old man to remember the exact date from decades ago when the account was opened we had to give up and he had to go into the bank defeating the object of #stayhome so the credit card is now not in use either.

And what if internet goes down. Not all of us are willing to get into shedloads of debt to buy the more expensive smartphones.

You cannot compare Twitter to online banking Absolutely ridiculous.

When more people tried to shop online the systems couldnt cope.