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Cash does anyone still use it?
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Von | Report | 13 Jan 2018 11:34 |
Kense you are correct. You need a card of some sort. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 13 Jan 2018 11:48 |
I use my contactless mainly for shopping. |
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supercrutch | Report | 13 Jan 2018 11:51 |
Thanks for all your replies, they are very interesting. |
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Von | Report | 13 Jan 2018 12:01 |
Sue - I'm very lucky all the shops in my village take a card including the cafe ;-) ;-) ;-) |
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supercrutch | Report | 13 Jan 2018 12:32 |
Von, I used our local shop every day when we rented the apartment at the coast, whilst waiting to move in here but I was smoking then..lolol they took cards but I could also draw cash at the tiny chemist! |
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AnninGlos | Report | 13 Jan 2018 13:14 |
Am I in the minority? I have never yet done an on line food shop. I know I am a minority because I actually enjoy food shopping (sad?) We don't have any local to us shops except for a McCalls supermarket, a co-op supermarket and a Tesco Metro supermarket. We do have a local chemist and bakers but we lost our butcher and greengrocer many years ago. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 13 Jan 2018 13:23 |
"I understand if you use public transport you need cash......what is a bus" |
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BrianW | Report | 13 Jan 2018 13:51 |
We use a credit card for most things and pay off the balance in full the following month. That earns loyalty points which pay for the Christmas shopping. |
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Rambling | Report | 13 Jan 2018 13:59 |
I shop online, and I couldn't manage otherwise for all the heavy/bulky stuff. I get most of the fresh veg etc up the road ( more often Dan does it as he is at the PO pretty much daily) & use cash for the charity shop books and the odd buy ;-) |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 13 Jan 2018 14:12 |
Rollo - Although you may have obtained your Bus Pass when you were 63, the qualifying age is increasing to match the accelerated female retirement age. |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 13 Jan 2018 14:16 |
I spend a lot of time in London, so can use my bus pass on the buses, but I can’t use it on the underground as London residents can. I have an oyster card which I used to top up, but now I don’t bother with that. I just tap my credit or debit card on the readers and use that instead. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 13 Jan 2018 15:20 |
In our area you don't need to pay by cash on the Stagecoach buses, you can just tap your contacless card, the same way we tap out free bus passes. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 13 Jan 2018 16:51 |
We rarely have more than £20 in our purse / wallet. If we are going away somewhere we usually have some more, just in case, but even then only £50 or so each. We have no other cash at all in the house. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 13 Jan 2018 17:06 |
It’s more likely the retailers who passed on the fee will claw it back somehow. They’ll add it on a someother ‘charge’. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 13 Jan 2018 17:54 |
We can use cash, a Compass card (similar to your Oyster card) or a day ticket on our buses; Compass card or day ticket only on the rapid transit Skytrain. |
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Jacqueline | Report | 13 Jan 2018 18:17 |
Maybe worth bearing in mind that a few years ago one of the major banks had computer problems and people were unable to use credit or debit cards and, I think, cash machines. We have a separate account with another building society with £500 in for just such emergencies- hopefully enough for us and the family. |
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'Emma' | Report | 13 Jan 2018 18:21 |
Always have cash in my purse but never out in the |
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Andrew | Report | 13 Jan 2018 18:37 |
Cash has always been expensive to handle at banks. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 13 Jan 2018 18:52 |
It is far from unusual for upmarket London residential property to be bought for cash. Two or three million pounds in £ 20 and £ 50 ( there is a shortage of £ 50 ) def won't fit in the average briefcase. |
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 13 Jan 2018 19:11 |
Have a read of this it's about the fees on ctedit/debit cards and direct debits. |