Are You Finding Cash Is Getting Refused More?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55717933
I paid in the old bangers are Aldi this morning but they were a bit sniffy. Cash was refused in a garage the other week. Do you think the retailers are using this to edge us towards a cashless society?

[andres]

If ever we do go cashless,and I hope that we never do, then think of all those at the Royal mint losing their jobs. We will then have a vast industry in the one thing we've been trying to get rid of for years----Plastic. Is that what you really want?

[davebro]

I starting a new company - credit cards made from seaweed!

[barry1010]

andres, the Royal Mint makes coins for over 60 countries so unless the whole world goes cashless it will be okay for a while

[jno]

davebro, can I have mine quinoa-flavoured?

[david small]

Always pay cash. Though today in Asda the self service machine would not except £50 note.

[Jackdaw33]

£50 notes seem to be shunned almost everywhere. Fear of forgery I suppose. Don't see the point of them if no-one will take them.

[emmie]

my hairdressers if they ever open again, only accept cash or cheque, they have never asked for card payment, nor will they i expect, fingers crossed they do open, as hair looking a right mess again.

[iluvmargie]

Use both happily, but mainly cash.

[jazzyjen]

During lockdown we have been sorting through the house and putting aside things to sell. There is now a whole room full of perfectly useable things that are too good to throw in the bin.
I intend to get to a car boot sale when they are allowed again so I can see no other way than accepting cash. I may have to have a dish of disinfectant on the table to drop money into!

[woofgang]

jazzyjen.....mobile card reader? https://merchantmachine.co.uk/credit-card-machine/

[davebro]

Oops! Used cash today £1 for the trolley. Got it back tho'.

[davebro]

Jazz - I would expect cash only at a car boot.

[jourdain2]

Most places I use only accept cash or cheques. Supermarkets and Garages are the exception, but I use cash there sometimes. Hairdresser, masseuse, window cleaner, egg-man, greengrocery stall and local part-time P.O./shop only accept cash. Milkman accepts a cheque. Couldn't function without cash.

[joeski53]

Theres over 1.3 million who dont or cant have a bank account for various reasons, no fixed abode, bankruptcy is another reason.

[fcc]

How are shops allowed to refuse Legal Tender?

[THECORBYLOON]

Legal tender need not be accepted unless it is to settle a debt.

If you have an item in a shop, there is no debt so legal tender can be refused.

If you've had a meal in a restaurant, you have to pay after the meal has been eaten and you are in debt to the restaurant.

If the meal cost £30 and you had only two £20 notes, they would have to accept them but they need not give you any change.

[joeski53]

//How are shops allowed to refuse Legal Tender//
I think they can while this pandemic is on, They use that reason due to Covid strictly card only, They did it during the earlier lockdowns where I live.

[fcc]

THECORBYLOON,i'm well impressed with that answer,thank you.

[douglas9401]

Nope, hasn't happened to me.

[diddlydo]

The only time I've used cash since last March was at a market stall where they would only take cards for over £5. I was tempted to tell them to stuff their strawberries but I relented and paid with filthy cash.