News Archive 2024

Starbucks have really got to pay attention to standards in their franchise network. Starbucks HQ will tell you they have no “cashless” policy - BUT they don’t stop franchisees from refusing cash. Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan needs to smell the coffee. “Cashless” is already unacceptable - and will soon be illegal - in the United Kingdom. PLEASE STOP YOUR FRANCHI....

Cash will ALWAYS be critical for businesses which truly respect their customers wishes and needs. As regards innovation, there has been huge innovation in recent years to improve the cash supply chain and cash handling. That innovation needs to now be fully implemented to ensure cash circulates smoothly - particularly at community level - for businesses and the public. Source: chainstoreage.com....

Just a week after it became apparent that Barclays UK may well close up to 1000 of the 1400 branches they have left in the UK, the bank has announced draconian limitations on cash deposits. Read this article to see what Martin Quinn, a Campaign Director of the Payment Choice Alliance, has to say about this totally unacceptable manoeuvre by Barclays UK. Many financial services “insiders&rdq....

There are MANY reasons why British businesses and the British public want and need to use cash. Martin and Bizza have a chat about just some of those reasons.

Wiltshire Council has announced that all their parking meters are being replaced - and that the shiny new ones will continue to accept cash! Well done to this Council. They did NOT wait until a UK Payment Choice Act is passed to do the right thing. All other Councils please copy! Source: gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/24249748.council-clarify-cashless-parking-concerns-marlborough/

This is a story from Swindon - BUT around the UK, customers are starting to boycott Asda because the retailer because it is imposing “cashless”. When will businesses learn? “Cashless” is a dead man walking. When the UK Payment Choice Act becomes law, the corpse will be buried PERMANENTLY. BUT do NOT wait for that, Asda! Give your customers back their RIGHT to Payment C....

It’s GREAT when research confirms what we already knew! Cash allows us to track and control our own spending better, in addition to stopping companies and governments tracking our lives! Two WONDERFUL features of cash that can NEVER be replicated by any other payment method! Source: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13305655/amp/Handing-cash-causes-psychological-pain-using-cards-research-sugge....

Well done to the supporters of Daventry Town Football Club for refusing to accept the imposition of “cashless”! Some football clubs have gone “cashless”, which, apart from anything else, is hardly in the spirit of the inclusiveness that the sport claims to promote. Of course, ALL football clubs will be forced to revert to accepting cash when the UK Payments Choice Act bec....

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....