This has made my day. Technology is always letting people down. When will the late comers realise cash is King? If you carry cash like you did for many years without issues perfectly fine, this issue wouldn't have been a problem.
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This has made my day. Technology is always letting people down. When will the late comers realise cash is King? If you carry cash like you did for many years without issues perfectly fine, this issue wouldn't have been a problem.
People should always carry some cash for emergencies, but I'll still primarily use my cards/phone to pay because 99% of the time it's quicker and easier.
I couldn't agree more.
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My partner and I went into a branch of Boots chemist last week. Everything was alright, until my partner came to pay for his items, only to find there were no cashiers, just automated pay points. My partner was so incensed, that he asked to speak to the manageress. When she arrived, she was fairly polite, and they had a perfectly civilised converstion about the issue. She said that some customers had been quite abusive, towards the staff members, because of the absence of human beings serving them.
I managed to chime in with, not everyone wants a cahless society.
I will advocate using cash to the bitter end
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Can’t say I’ve noticed it being quicker when you are stuck behind someone who can’t get it to work
If hovering a phone or card over a contactless reader is too much for them, I question if they should be out unsupervised.
I've had a bit of an overwheming day, regarding the cashless society being forced upon us. Nothing spectacular, or dramatic - infact it was quite subtle.
First incident was when a bus driver wanted to look at my card. I don't have a card, I paid by cash, for a paper ticket. He just assumed that I had a bus card!
Second incident was when I was purchasing a dvd from a well known High Street store. I went to the cash desk, and handed the cashier a £10 note. He looked a little taken aback, because he had pushed the card machine in front of me, expecting me to pay by card.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but not all of us want to live in a cashless society. Some of us would like to be given the choice of paying by cash or card.
First incident was when a bus driver wanted to look at my card. I don't have a card, I paid by cash, for a paper ticket. He just assumed that I had a bus card!
Second incident was when I was purchasing a dvd from a well known High Street store. I went to the cash desk, and handed the cashier a £10 note. He looked a little taken aback, because he had pushed the card machine in front of me, expecting me to pay by card.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but not all of us want to live in a cashless society. Some of us would like to be given the choice of paying by cash or card.
Good to see people fighting back more. It shows the pub badly that they didn't comment.
The pub story has made me absolutely livid.
All the while cash is still considered legal tender, anyone who does anything like this should get in serious trouble.
All the while cash is still considered legal tender, anyone who does anything like this should get in serious trouble.
Agreed, I refuse to go anywhere that only takes card
I find the annoying vice versa too - a fair few shops locally to me refuse card payment.
Anything that is legal tender, they should be forced by law to accept it at all times. With the card issue, if they can't afford the fees then don't run a shop. I had a shopkeeper be really, really nasty to me when I tried to pay by card without knowing they didn't take it. Fed up of all the barriers being put up when just trying to live life.
I bought something in Currys a few months ago and paid the £35 with 2 twenty pound notes the youngster behind the till looked horrified and I had to say to him you need to give me £5 change either a note or 5 £1 coins. I suppose cards means they don't have to use their brains any more.
Yes the shop assistants often look like this nowadays , many clearly don't have one iota how to count change correctly !
Made my day reading they have lost 90k. People want to chuck coins not swipe a card and if the structure is damaged use the cash to protect it better instead of killing a tradition.
Aww diddums if only they carried cash.
Shout out to all my fellow cash is king lovers on this special day of places all over the country begging for customers to pay for cash when they are usually cashless and don't accept it 
Resurrecting this thread for all the Barclays Bank customers out there.
Cash is King.
I went to a theatre a few years ago (2022) in London, went to give them a £20 and they said they would not accept cash for payment of two coffees. With that, I turned on my heel and walked away, no cash, no purchase.
I went to a theatre a few years ago (2022) in London, went to give them a £20 and they said they would not accept cash for payment of two coffees. With that, I turned on my heel and walked away, no cash, no purchase.
I think the Barclays issue teaches us not to put all our money in one place, rather than as a caution against internet banking.
After all, an IT issue could impact all activities of a particular bank, so even if you're a 'cash is king' person you might not be able to withdraw cash either from an ATM or at a branch if their systems are down and they can't verify your balance.
So I think, in addition to keeping some cash aside for emergencies, having at least two bank accounts is a good idea just so you've got something to fall back on in case one bank is temporarily impacted.
With this topic it sometimes feels you should be a 'contactless only' or a 'cash only' person, whereas I think most people are a bit of both. For example, I pretty much always use my card if the option is available, but I always carry some cash so I can use it if the seller doesn't take card or their systems are temporarily down.
After all, an IT issue could impact all activities of a particular bank, so even if you're a 'cash is king' person you might not be able to withdraw cash either from an ATM or at a branch if their systems are down and they can't verify your balance.
So I think, in addition to keeping some cash aside for emergencies, having at least two bank accounts is a good idea just so you've got something to fall back on in case one bank is temporarily impacted.
With this topic it sometimes feels you should be a 'contactless only' or a 'cash only' person, whereas I think most people are a bit of both. For example, I pretty much always use my card if the option is available, but I always carry some cash so I can use it if the seller doesn't take card or their systems are temporarily down.
Have all the traditional "cash only" businesses around you guys had to switch?
I've noticed that nearly all takeaways have, by either taking card or opening cashpoints outside of their stores.
Taxi driving has been taken over by the apps.
Only hairdressers and car related businesses are hanging on from what I've seen.
I've noticed that nearly all takeaways have, by either taking card or opening cashpoints outside of their stores.
Taxi driving has been taken over by the apps.
Only hairdressers and car related businesses are hanging on from what I've seen.
The only cash-only businesses I can think of near me are at a market in a nearby town. They're just market stalls hence aren't equipped to take card, plus there are loads of cashpoints nearby anyway.
Pretty much everywhere else takes both which is the ideal really.
Pretty much everywhere else takes both which is the ideal really.