Jersey To Show UK How Payment Choice Laws Work?
Posted on: 02/03/2026Interesting 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, nonsensical.
Our Chair Ron Delnevo worked in his dad’s shop as a youngster, running it directly for a time. He accepted ALL payments, including cheques.
Years after that experience of retailing, Ron worked in other prominent retail businesses. So Ron knows all about retailing and retailers - and he definitely does NOT accept that they should have the right to dictate to their customers as to how they must pay.
If shops and other businesses find bank charges related to cash too high, then they must put pressure on the banks, via their elected representatives, to lower those charges.
The banks have deliberately made cash more expensive and inconvenient for businesses - but it is NOT the public that should be penalised for this by losing their Payment Choice!
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