Cashless Society

[rainbowlemon]

Wouldn't try it with petrol but the other ideas are good:

 

[Saddlesoap]

Interesting comments. Personally I've never really thought much about it, I rarely ever have cash on me, usually just pay with my phone.

@StephenTJackson regarding 5ers for birthday pots. My colleagues mostly all BACS each other. I have so many saved transfer details on my banking app.

@Apple In My Pie I don't believe anyone could drain your bank account if they found your phone. Unless they also found your thumb?

I sound like a complete enabler

Overall I don't think we will lose loose change, but we maybe loose the notes.

 

[Ensay]

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.

 

[Lanie]

I hate the cashless society. I pay on card sometimes but honestly rather pay with cash.

I shop for an elderly person who pays me cash to get her goods and honestly the looks i get for doing are awful. I honestly think choice should be kept in all shops.

 

[Polythene Pam]

Our local Wagamamas decided it wasn't taking cash anymore last year (not sure if this was a chain wide decision or not).

Their wifi went down so they couldn't take card and asked us to pay using the QR code on their menu. I had no signal to use the QR code and asked to pay in cash. They repeatedly asked me to join the free WiFi for the shopping centre and then use the QR code. This is a WiFi that tells you when you join it's not secure. We had a bit of a Mexican stand off and eventually they took cash. It's so stupid for a restaurant not to.

I find cash stuffing really good for reining in my spending so I do use a good amount of cash. I try to use cash my default and only use card if its not taken.

We absolutely are sleep walking into a cashless society which they will plough on with despite not having the infrastructure for it.

 

[emm]

I carry cash but that's because I like to nip into charity shops etc but I'm definitely using cards more then I used to .

Same and I really hate it, I was so much better at budgeting whne I used cash, I would take out money at the beginning of the week (for everything other than rent and bills) and when it was gone I wouldn't spend anymore, I really need to start that again tbh

 

[Poddular]

Where I live at the moment all the shops ( there aren't many to be fair) have joined together and put notices in the window that while they happily accept all forms of payment they would prefer and be grateful if people paid in cash. They all have the petition to sign on their counter.
I was in a big city Premier inn restaurant for breakfast last week and the woman was stood at the door turning everyone away as their machines were down and they couldn't take payments. It was 9.99 each so my husband gave her a £20 note and said keep the change. She was utterly flustered and nearly turned us away but the manager came and said " great, welcome,enjoy".
Wtf is wrong with people sleepwalking into cashless. Having lived in an area with regular power cuts I can tell you cash is king. Businesses and customers are fooked without power. I recently was at a garage where the shop was full of customers unable to pay for their fuel as the card payment machine wasn't working. They couldn't leave, it looked very inconvenient for everyone involved.

 

[AllSeeingEye123]

https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...nfold-switching-contactless-wishing-well.html

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.

 

[Welshgal]

From my experience (before covid, not sure about now obvi) there‘s more places in „west“ Germany where you can pay with card (small restaurants, kiosks, chippy etc.) then in „east“ Germany. But sadly that can be said for many more modern things ...

I rarely use cash but I also don‘t do stuff I want to hide from my bank/the government or care all that much. It‘s not like they are going to look at all my transfers and go „wow this fatty had McD for the 3rd time this week“

 

[StephenTJackson]

I'm sorry to read about your brother. Banks aren't charities though. They still have to pay business rates, rent, wages and utilities bills. The footfall in our town centre is non existent, more and more is being done online. I speak to a lot of retired people for my job role and they are better online than I am. Times change and we have to keep up. I'm sure you can pay money into bank accounts via a local postoffice, our village post office offers the service.

And how many places are losing their Post Offices as well. My town has lost its Post office. And there was always a queue for it when it was open.

Banks aren't charities, but they are regulated by govt we have a right to demand govt make sure cash doesn't go out of use.

 

[Yel]

I do think some people are a bit hyperbolic about the problems banks sometimes have. It's very rare and then you'd just need a credit card or 2nd free bank account.

Does anyone else remember just how many fake £1 there was before the new one? It was something like 1/30 iirc.

There's payment cards for children that lots get their pocket money added to, go Henry and all that.

 

[Notworthy]

Agree, I have left shops before that don’t accept cash

I expect shops to accept both. Shops that only take cash piss me off, they're either tax dodging (barbers) or a front for slave labour (nail bars) a legitimate business will take both, why would any business refuse a perfectly reasonable way of paying.

 

[tortfeasor]

Jesus, who uses cash these days? I can't remember the last time I saw a note and I'm an old fart. My kids laugh at me because I pay contactless, they use apple pay with their phones.

Me and I’m in my 30s - shock horror! I have to regularly to pay the takeaway I visit on a Saturday and my barber in cash and it’s not a big deal as I simply go to an Asda and get cash back when I pay for shopping every 4/5 weeks. I also prefer to take it on nights out if I’m drinking rather than my card.
Phones are all well and good but liable to battery running out especially with the drain that is WhatsApp, as I learned a few weeks back when my phone ran out of battery and I couldn’t use it to open the hotel room door.

 

[Deeznutslol]

He doesn't care about anybody but himself, if there is a bandwagon he'll leap on it. The man is a moron. Cash won't be going anywhere, as a society we have found another way of paying and transferring money and it's easier. I don't remember this uproar when cheques weren't accepted anymore. I work long hours and if I can save a bit of time and not have to drive to a cash machine then I have no problem with that.

Absolutely! Regardless of your opinion on a cashless society, I think we can all agree that Corbyn is just a crafty old grifter! Surely everyone hasn’t forgotten those 2 YouTubers who pretended to be AstraZeneca employees offering him 10 grand to stop talking shit about vaccines and he was more than willing to accept the payment ? They totally exposed him for the grifter he is, all of his beliefs and morals went straight out of the window as soon as they mentioned the cash, so I doubt he really gives a shit about a cashless society anyway.

 

[Swisspea]

The banks have been working to remove cheques and cash for some years - I used to run projects in the U.K. for one of the main clearing banks 20 years ago. Not just for nefarious reasons- for practical reasons like cash is hellish difficult to manage and control and cheques are notoriously open to cock up( or they were when the actual document was bundled up at the end of each day and sent to a massive pit of complexity in the centre of the county).
I have no problem using cards and cash and whatever suits the situation. I have grave reservations about the requirements and ability to be ( and remain) banked for everyone. In my opinion it should not mean that someone who has outspoken views can be forced out of society at the whim of whoever is shouting loudest. That is not the society that appeals to me

 

[Damita]

I avoid using cash when possible but I don't like the idea of a totally cashless society. I feel there should always be freedom of choice, not least for elderly and other people who may struggle with technology and have nobody to help them. These people are always totally disregarded every time there is some new initiative thought up by some bright spark wanting change only for the sake of change, and it deeply offends me.

As for Britcoin, well. What a Dystopian nightmare that sounds.

 

[Rockin' Robin]

I hate the cashless society. I pay on card sometimes but honestly rather pay with cash.

I shop for an elderly person who pays me cash to get her goods and honestly the looks i get for doing are awful. I honestly think choice should be kept in all shops.

I think we should have the choice to pay by cash or card, everywhere.

 

[AllSeeingEye123]

The worst is cashless parking. Especially when you have to stand by the ticket machine, register to a website, type in your card details and type in your registration plate in a short length of time before you get fined for not paying.

 

[Notworthy]

Still use cash although never see anyone else using it. Found a few of those special celebration coins after checking through it all
It's handy having cash when the internet crashes in shops. I'll never use card only until I'm forced.

I was using the self checkout in M&S (I usually use the actual checkouts but none were open) Only 2 were cash/card all the others were card only and literally everyone in the queue was using cash. The poor staff member didn't know what to do, she was asking everyone joining the queue if they were using card and it was nope, nope, nope, I told her so much for no one using cash!!! This was in South London, not the boonies

 

[NowIsGood]

Went to London yesterday to do a few touristy things and NO ONE wants your cash! Seriously, when you ask if somewhere takes cash they look at you with actual disgust! Some reluctantly do, but others flat out refuse.
The way cash has been phased out these last few years is bloody scary. Once it's gone there's no going back