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Given that I work for a company who's main thing is making cash processing machines then I should use cash, but apart from my monthly trip to the barbers, which is cash only, I really don't. Contactless or Google Pay from my phone wherever possible. Have two current accounts, one for bills and one for spending and both are with online only banks. Cash is just a faff these days and more and more places are going card only. Cash use is already in huge decline, although it has seen a slight uptick in the current economic situation as people use cash as a form of budgeting. But I'd imagine in 10 years or so it will be very rare to use cash, same as cheques are not really used at all now.
Surely something like a Square card reader, which is linked to a phone doesn't need mobile signal to function, just a bluetooth connection to a phone? Or set up a just giving page and get people to donate there? That's how we do charity donations at work now.A knock on effect of cashless society: I was talking to a neighbour yesterday, who organises the local Poppy Day collections in our village. He was saying donations this time are really down on previous ones, mainly because a lot less people are carrying cash to put in the collection tins. I mentioned that next time they’d maybe have to get card readers for the collectors to carry? Unfortunately he thought they might not work because the mobile signal where we live is all but non existent.
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