Cashless Society

Hymie | 19:54 Fri 25th Sep 2020 | Business & Finance

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I’m making a claim today (for a UK first) in terms of the UK becoming a cashless society.

At lunchtime today I was unable to buy a drink; I had cash, I had a credit card, I had a debit card, I even had a gift card for the pub chain – but my Nokia 3310 is not compatible with the required app to order away from the bar. Staff refused to serve me, not having an acceptable (to them) method of payment.

Anyone going to claim this has happened to them before today?

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Buenchico

>>> How am I meant to pay my window cleaner and my gardener without cash?

Most window cleaners around here never see their customers (because they're out at work). Customers pay them by direct debit.

Independent traders (from burger van sellers to car booters) use these (or similar):
https://www.ryman.co.uk/sumup-air-card-payment-reader

vulcan42

Instead of faffing around with different cards for different machines to pay different people, it's much easier with cash. Incidentally,what happens to the credit card system when there's a power cut?

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or the battery in your phone dies.

alavahalf

When there's a power cut the whole property becomes a liability and would need to be evacuated.
I don't want to burst your bubble, but retro phones belong in the past. The 3310 was the worlds favourite affordable phone... more than 20 years ago.
Smart phones are as cheap as chips these days. With a basic modern phone you could have easily used your gift voucher.
My guess is most of the bar staff will never have seen a 3310. Make sure your next phone has NFC and a 6+" screen.

Maydup

Most businesses will close in a power cut anyway Vulcan as the freezers will need to be closed, the tills will need to be secured, the stock control system will have crashed, the fire curtains will have dropped, the alarms will be beeping, and of course the lights will be out.

douglas9401

A cashless society will lead inevitably to unemployment across the board, starting with the world of opera and the three tenners.

alavahalf

What's a tenner?

Jackdaw33

A £10 note.

sevenOP

"When there's a power cut the whole property becomes a liability and would need to be evacuated."

Shops, pubs and many other establishments remained open during the rolling blackouts in the 1972 miners' strike.

Old_Geezer

This period of cov is exceptional. Once things are allowed to return to normal, I'm sure enough folk will have the sense to value cash, so we won't become a cashless society. In fact I doubt that any society, where the people can make a choice, will convert.

sevenOP

We can but hope the Government's 'nudge unit' don't herd us into the cashless lunacy O_G

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/MINDSPACE.pdf

gulliver1

Cashless Society, The tax inspectors dream come true.

alavahalf

1972 ..... back when they had gas lamps and naked flames..When men were men.. really!
We are talking about earlier today when if your trading premises are not inspected, licensed and certified to trade. You will be dragged straight to court and sued should you cause harm to any customer through negligence. Keeping a property open in a power cut would be deemed negligent. Slips, trips, spills, alarms, sensors, lighting, ovens, pumps, think about it. Health and safety has been put in place for a reason.