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Payment Choice is preferable - but businesses that only accept cash certainly rubbish the notion that “cashless” is the only sensible way to run anything successfully these days. Here in the UK, many businesses made the excuse of Covid to stop accepting cash. There are NO excuses now. Those businesses that have imposed “cashless” still have a chance to honour the wishes ....

“The world’s gone mad.” That’s the view of Oldham residents faced with Asda imposing “cashless” at their petrol forecourts. There is talk of a boycott. Who could blame the public in Oldham for taking such a firm stance against the horrors of “cashless”? Source: theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news/24246906.oldham-residents-blast-supermarket-card-only-initia....

A quote from this article “A digital payment system allows for greater economic transparency, which can help curb illicit activities like tax evasion and money laundering”. Just one of the issues? Who decides what is an illicit activity? The “Authorities”. In how many countries can citizens REALLY trust the “Authorities”? Approaching ZERO. Which is why th....

Reading between the lines of this article, the new UK Universal Parking App is going to be used to push up parking revenue - a new method to impose what amounts to a “Stealth Tax” to penalise already hard-pressed motorists. There are currently only 300,000 paid for car parking spaces in the UK, earning Local Authorities a horrifying £2 Billion a year. Why not double the number ....

“Cashless” has been imposed on an Australian island by a totally arrogant businessman. There is a danger that Australia is turning into a Dictatorship, with the “ Authorities” supporting Big Business and ignoring the wishes and needs of the public. Such anti-Democratic behaviour will NEVER be allowed to happen in the UK. Source: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13282105/amp/....

The oddly named “Strikepay” is a FinTech encouraging people to make “cashless” tips. But not many people seem to be using it. They claim to cover 30,000 venues and that they collected £15 million in tips last year. That’s around £500 per venue in a full year - or significantly less than £2 per day. Wow! And how much of that £2 went straigh....

Whilst many communities are reversing previous decisions to go “cashless”, there are always foolish outliers. How’s this for a quote? “Lord Mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Alderman Margaret Tinsley said: “These changes [ to go “cashless”] to council-owned off-street car parking should be minimal and therefore won’t present too much i....

The suggestion in this article of a 4 to 5% price hike to offset card costs is not at all acceptable. Some Unites States retailers are now again giving a discount to cash users - as they did years ago.  That makes more sense to me than cash users paying an extra amount to help cover card costs. Frankly, the huge profits accruing to card schemes and their partner banks since the first plast....

This was the sign at the Cricketers in Cobham, part of the Heartwood Collection, which also includes Brasserie Blanc. There are around 40 sites in this “collection” - and this number is increasing, so spreading the poison of “cashless”. To see this happening, in the same week that Payment Choice Alliance Campaign Director Martin Quinn drew attention to the fact that Bill&....

A good article. The main difficulty businesses say they have with cash is not being able to deposit it easily. The Big Five “High Street” banks have simply closed their branches without making excellent alternative provision for cash deposits. It was known more than five years ago that this was becoming a significant problem, yet for all the noise around the “Cash Access Pilot....