Shops and firms will not be forced to accept cash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20gevkx8gyo
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Shops and firms will not be forced to accept cash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20gevkx8gyo
Posted by pppppppppppppppppd
12 Comments
Good. Businesses should be able to do what they want
For alot of smaller businesses its just not financially viable to have cash on site. Plus also the added security risk
Cash is ‘money’. They should accommodate it. It takes away people’s individual liberties to pay how they choose.
It’s not as if it’s foreign currency, it’s currency printed by the BOE.
Businesses ought accommodate the consumer, not the other way around. Money is money. We have digital and physical, both are money.
One of the problems at shops not taking cash is that people don’t carry cash.
So when you get someone collecting for charity if you had a few coins in your pocket you would often throw in the bucket.
I know a lot of these collectors have card readers. Including those selling the big issue, but to be honest there isn’t a hope in hell that I am going to put my card into a card reader held by someone just stood on the high Street no matter how good the cause is.
Meh. I prefer the option of how to pay, but I don’t think we should start forcing businesses one way or another.
If it sufficiently vexes me, then I can always take my business elsewhere. It probably won’t, though, as I always carry both cards and cash.
This is a bad idea and a very slippery slope to a cashless society. Please don’t ever get rid of cash.
Well that’s a lovely kick in the balls to people who get paid in cash.
Edit: Many self employed people such as various trades men/women, hairdressers, gardners, cleaners, traders of various sorts etc etc get paid in cash. Sometimes because they prefer it, but often times because that’s how the client prefers to pay them.
There are many people in jobs that are reliant on tips which are often cash.
And banks are closing down branches left right and centre and not to mention that the few that are left open on the high streets tend to only be open during working hours which means cash can’t always be easily and conviently deposited.
People who dont earn salaries sitting in a cubicle do exist and no they arn’t all drug dealers.
I’m just going to start blocking all the horrible stuck up classist people trolling my comment from now on.
Working in a shop I can see how problematic cash is. First and foremost hygiene, have seen notes and coins come out with handkerchiefs and kids sucking on the coins they are about to hand to you.
Occasional forgeries, conmen changing notes scams, having to be aware of possible money laundering, new “smart” safes insisted on by the insurance companies and the cost of security people to come collect your money and take it elsewhere.
If I was a bigger company I would want to be cashless 100%, would drive operating costs down over night
It makes me laugh how cynical some people can be about things like this (bordering on conspiracy) but if you asked them how they pay for things I’d guess vast majority of the time it’s on their phone unless it’s cash only or they happen to have some cash on them at that time.
The banks will love it, more free money for them and higher retail prices. 2.5% of the transaction plus a fixed transaction fee of 10 to 40 pence a go. And people wonder why prices have shot up so much
That’s fine.
But instead of holding on to cash, we should be finding ways to make other payment methods accessible to all.
There are very very few who genuinely can’t use cards/phone payments, and we should be working to improve the tech and systems to accommodate them.
I don’t expect shops to be forced to accept cash, just don’t be surprised when someone walks out
This post feels heavily botted. It gives me the astroturfing yips