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Lucy & Yak don’t accept cash - and offer only online receipts. Both practices are terrible customer service - and should be illegal. The Alliance has received a complaint from a customer using their Edinburgh store, who rightly points out that Lucy & Yak are making a false claim that they are “diverse and inclusive”. “Cashless” is NOT inclusive. The Govern....

Interesting article by Georgina Barnes at the BBC. The Payment Choice Alliance fully supports legislation on the island of Jersey to oblige businesses to accept cash. Businesses cannot be allowed to dictate payment methods customers can use. And that includes the Jersey bus operator, who clearly need to improve their cash management systems. The figures they quote for cash costs are, frankly, n....

With bank branches disappearing at the rate of two a day for the last ten years - and ATMs being ripped out even faster - retailers are becoming more important than ever in supplying cash to the British public. And no retailer is more important than Tesco. Tesco now have more branches than the total operated by the UK’s Big Five banks. And most of those Tesco’s branches have busy ATM....

The future of the UK Post Office is going to get a significant amount of attention in 2026, as the UK Government reports the results of a consultation started in July 2025. In thinking about the future of the Post Office, this article struck a chord. In it, the CEO of Cash Access UK ( ex Lloyds Banking Group) is quoted as “seeking to break the Post Office monopoly” of Banking Hubs. C....

This act has little chance of getting approved by the Republican controlled Senate and House of Representatives- if it does, it is doubtful President Trump will sign it off. And even if Trump does approve it, these exceptions tend to render it totally useless: “Exceptions exist for temporary, unforeseen, or brief periods where a business is unable to accept cash, or for businesses that off....

More news from New Zealand PCA supporters! This time a “cashless” proclamation from their local spa. It is amazing that some businesses still have the nerve to claim “cashless” brings ANY of the listed “benefits” to customers - BUT it is particularly laughable for a venue operating hot spring pools to list “more Hygienic” as a reason for going &ldq....

This article in The Guardian was going quite well until near the end, when the journalist decided to rely on UK Finance for figures on cash use! NOT the right thing to do! Instead, how about asking the British Retail Consortium? After all, retailers tend to know how people pay in shops! According to the British Retail Consortium Payment Survey Report 2025 (covering the 2024 calendar year), cas....

AI brings news on New Zealand banking. “As of February 2026, ANZ approximately 170 to 180 retail branches across New Zealand. While it remains the country's largest bank by assets, it has significantly reduced its physical footprint from a peak of around 300 branches a decade ago to adapt to the shift toward digital banking.” So around 170 branches - plus nearly 60....

Thanks to Temie Laleye at GB News for highlighting this issue. Precisely NOTHING has been done by successive UK Governments to ensure 24/7 cash access is maintained. This inaction culminated in what many consider to be the infamous HM Treasury “Cash Access Policy Statement”, published on 18 August 2023, which was artfully worded so that ATMs were NEVER mentioned! Perhaps the most im....

19,000 free-to-use ATMs lost in the UK since 1 January 2018, after LINK, funded by the big UK banks, unilaterally decided in 2017 that there were too many ATMs in the UK That’s means around SEVEN ATMS have been ripped out EVERY SINGLE DAY. The British public have been robbed of genuinely convenient 24/7 cash access - because ATMs are the only way such access can be provided. Ron Delnevo, t....