House keys or car keys? I’ve not come across this before with house keys. I love minimalist packing although I would be too scared of a dead battery.
Is the tram pass too big to fit into the back of a clear phone case?
House keys or car keys? I’ve not come across this before with house keys. I love minimalist packing although I would be too scared of a dead battery.
Is the tram pass too big to fit into the back of a clear phone case?
If people want to go cashless why don’t they just go cashless and patronise businesses accordingly? There are other barbers in the world, who have card machines. What’s it got to do with anyone how other people pay for things? It is possible to be personally cashless without forcing the rest of society to abandon cash as well.
Ah, but you want to impose your cashless beliefs on everyone else. You want your cake and eat it too. Seems like you want to keep going to the same barber and make them to accept cards, doesn’t it?
It’s not particularly great wanting everyone to think the same.
Yes they’re other barbers in the world but if you live in a small town or village and there is only one barber you can visit and they don’t accept card patronising them or taking your custom elsewhere wont do much to change their practice as most people will just relent and get cash out for it
Exactly. My point was it’s not great to impose ones cashless ideals on others. Why should that barber be made to accept cards if the customers ‘blink first’ and continue to pay cash?
Never.
Not just because some people actually work with and get paid in cash, but also because the UK will never be able to decide to do this, there will be no clear political win so no ruling party will tackle it.
Unless, of course, the south of England want it, then we’ll all just bow to whatever happens down there and … ugh. Ignore this, Brexit doldrums.
I think where we are now in terms of cash usage is where it will stay. I can’t see any reason we will do away with cash, something drastic would need to happen to push us there.
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The south is more remain than most areas of England are.
I live in Scotland, don’t even…
Has it ever occurred to you that most people have a personalised relationship with their barber? I know he gives a decent haircut and I know he isn’t going to leave me waiting to regrow my hair for X weeks
There’s definitely an anxiety to it
What’s your point?
Because the barber should be aspiring to provide more choice to consumers and to improve their service
Not “withdraw cash screw you”
Utilise that personal relationship you have with your barber then and ask him why he won’t accept your card.
The trolleys in Sainsbury’s are probably my most frequent use of cash!
All the trolleys in my local supermarkets (sainsburys included) are now free. Perhaps they’re phasing it out
Depends where you are and what you do. In a day working in Whitechapel, I wouldn’t use cash once, and probably not even use my card. Where I am in Kent, I probably need to use cash far more, be it that the chippy doesn’t take cards; or the local newsagent won’t take cards for less then a fiver etc
House. Yalex conexis lock.
Tram pass on back of phone would mean Google pay wouldn’t work
If only. These companies don’t budget for things going wrong or care about customer goodwill and will fob you off if you happen to be unlucky and get the order wrong twice. Thankfully chargebacks are a thing but sadly not many people know about them or have easy access to them (it can be a time-consuming process to dispute transactions with some legacy banks) so these companies get away with it.
If you’re in a major city. Anything smaller than a large city doesn’t get Uber (though it might get Uber eats… like Barrow. It’s awfully weird.).
However, I do know there’s now a rise in places which are becoming card only.
There’s pubs in Bristol that are card only, and I was down in Cornwall in St Ives and quite a few ‘higher end’ tourist shops were card only as well.
Business’s tend to fixate on the cost imposed on them for processing card payments (which can be quite competitive now if you look around anyway) - but then ignore the costs involved in continuing to take cash. For example, the literally lose they could have if someone didn’t calculate their change correctly, the fact that generally a ‘more senior’ member of staff will have to spend a significant amount of time cashing up at the end of the day and then having to take the cash to a nearby bank. If a business accepts a counterfeit note as well, who is liable for that?
Whilst Uber is pretty much, in the UK anyway I think, just the large cities, there are apps for local taxi companies as well.
We’ve got 2 in Exeter - one is an app for the local minicab firm which you can setup to pay via credit card and looks to have a pretty comparable app to Uber (you can track where your cab is and it’ll give you an estimate on the journey). It looks like the app is actually developed by a 3rd party and they then signup individual minicab firms to cover an area. Looking at the list of areas it’s available - you’ve got Lancaster, Harrogate, Harlow, Redditch, Sale, Winchester amongst others - so not just major cities.
The other is Ola Cabs, which I think is having a national rollout (just checked their website and they’re apparently launching in London on the 10th Feb). Same deal though as Uber - can pay by Credit Card or Apple Pay (and I assume GooglePay on Android phones) and it shows you where all the nearest cars are.
With all the shenanigan’s going on at Uber, it’s probably a good idea to check what other services are available now anyway.
There’s a couple of local taxi company apps in Barrow, but they’re cash only - at least, the one I know of that does accept card had a £10 minimum last I checked (though I’ll admit that was 6 years ago now).