The End Of Cash Is Nigh ...

[sunny-dave]

... when you can't even buy a pint of Old Knob Wobbler (other comedy beer names are available) without a card :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46507529

[hc4361]

I like the fact that I can always find the receipt :)

[Deskdiary]

I hardly ever carry cash - I find using a card so much more convenient, plus I always find when I do have cash on me, it seems to disappear so much quicker. Strange that.

The Wetherspoons App is excellent. I downloaded it specifically for use at Gatwick in October when me and a bunch of mates went away. The Wetherspoons at Gatwick is always packed, and there's always those annoying people that take up the time of bar staff by ordering coffee, even though there's load of places to get a coffee in Gatwick.

I was ordering drinks and they were brought to us within 5 minutes - 10 minutes at the most.

[Peter Pedant]

// I don't like the fact that one's movements are being recorded 24/7//

yeah but no but Kh

My brother in law was in Luxor when his neighbour accused him of criminal damage in Knutsford.
Yes the police finally recognise the neighbour is a stupid old cuss....

and I was in Lundy when Vicky Pollard accused me of being in her garden at midnight ....Vicky does not live in Lundy .....Her grouses and whinges are not muted but are treated with more doubt than previously

[spathiphyllum]

Yep, using the spoons app usually beats the Queue, also you can use your phone camera to "scan" your card so you don't need to faff with entering details

[spathiphyllum]

Pee Tah!

[Guilbert53]

The Wetherspoons staff are told to deal with orders from the app over other orders.

That is why the orders come quicker.

[Baldric]

Probably the only time I've used cash in the last 3 months or so has been to pay for car park tickets as the card keypads are difficult to obscure from other people if they're standing both sides of you, as they do.

[Canary42]

One of my local pubs (which also serves meals) will only accept cash - now that I think is unreasonable. I never go there now.

[Kromovaracun]

//you can use your phone camera to "scan" your card so you don't need to faff with entering details //

Or you can just use Paypal.

[hereIam]

I use cash the majority of the time and have no problems.

[fender62]

pint of bishops finger...

[Jackdaw33]

Tho only time I use cash is to pay taxi fares or pay my cleaner.

[Khandro]

How do you give someone a tip?

P.P. It raises another question; has anyone lent someone their card or phone to use in another location from that where they are committing a crime to form and alibi ? Hmmm!

[hc4361]

The sooner all taxi and private hire vehicles go entirely cashless the better. The drivers are too vulnerable to mugging

[ummmm]

My partner has cash on him all the time.

[Buenchico]

I use cash at the burger van, at the launderette, in the barbers and at car boot sales. I can't think of anywhere else. If I see 'cash only' on the door of a shop I generally go somewhere else, even if I've got plenty of cash on me, because I don't want to give my trade to dinosaurs.

As is mentioned in Dave's link, a pub here in Suffolk claimed to be the first in the UK to go cashless a few months ago but a bar in Granary Square in London was cashless when I went there several years ago. (It was more of a 'restaurant where you can order just drinks if you want', rather than a pub though).

You can't use cash on London buses and if you fly into Charleroi Airport in Belgium without carry a debit or credit card you won't be able to buy any tickets for your onward bus or train travel at all.

Many taxi drivers, and even some Big Issue sellers, now prefer to take plastic.

Cash is, thankfully, all but dead.

[youngmafbog]

The only time I use a card is if using the 'Spoons app which, as others have mentioned, is excellent.

I wont use cashless and I certainly wont use paypal over an unsecure wifi or phone signal.

In addition the reason I take cash is so that I know how much I will spend. In the late 80's early 90's, being one of Fatchers Yoof I had an Amex Gold card and, much to the annoyance of 'er indoors, used to put it beind the bar in Champaigne bars. Too many large bills and I now have more sense so cash for me if going out to get bladdered.

[youngmafbog]

//even if I've got plenty of cash on me, because I don't want to give my trade to dinosaurs.
//

You do realise that not all busineses can afford to use cards. We had a shop years ago the Banks clobber small businesses in charges for some it simply wont be economical. But you sit there basking in your selfrightouesness if it makes you feel good.

[youngmafbog]

"but it's unlikely a farmers market is going to have chip n pin on a market stall,"

Why? take for instance this big issue seller who has one (although I guess he did it because where he collected people didnt have cash)

https://www.bigissue.com/latest/big-issue-vendor-hits-headlines-buying-card-reader

[hc4361]

Banks charge businesses for operating their chequeing account, too