Flying Fokker
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Card only introduced during Covid at. Two Chippy’s near me. Good service and loyal customers. Add Chinese takeaways to the list of cash only.
Card only introduced during Covid at. Two Chippy’s near me. Good service and loyal customers. Add Chinese takeaways to the list of cash only.Our local chippy proudly stated they would be starting taking card payments, a week in notice to be cash only as their card reader wasn't working
When smoking was banned you really notice it more when someone nearby is smoking or smells of it, same thing now with coins. Absolutely stink, glad I no longer carry round a wallet filled with tramp DNA and germs (bar my own)
Cash is very much king in Italy...i'd say over 50% of the time the card machine is 'broken' and they 'forget' to give a receipt.Cash is for dodgy fuckers and old people at this point let’s be honest. We’ve had this convo before. The only time I touch cash is birthday presents for kids or buying drugs.
I get some people find it easier to budget with cash, but it seems like a silly reason to keep an entire physical infrastructure.
Would like to see banking opened up a bit though and peer to peer payments. And some kind of decentralised currency because I do think there’s value in money a particular government or institution can’t control. But cash ain’t that really either.
I’m at the point now where I get annoyed if someone who owes me money gives me cash. I’ve got cash in my wallet now that’s been there for months.
I don’t think it’s just the card charges they are hoping to avoid….I keep seeing posts getting more recent about paying small businesses with cash so they don't have to pay card charges etc.
It was a few years ago when I had a business account but paying cash in, they took a % also and it also meant I had to go to the bank, park, stand in the queue etc.
Card charges are pretty minimal nowadays compared to what they used to be.
It's just hassle to go to the cash point and get cash nowadays when you can just tap a phone and it's paid.
Yes my missus was in Sorrento last week and had to keep withdrawing money from the CashpointsCash is very much king in Italy...i'd say over 50% of the time the card machine is 'broken' and they 'forget' to give a receipt.
Some bloke paid for a pint on his card today. Didn't go through, tried again and again and he had to put his pin in the machine.
Took fucking ages to get served ffs
Not only do they take card but my local chippy takes amex which a year ago was unheard of.Don’t fish and chip shops generally take cash only?
Cash is very much king in Italy...i'd say over 50% of the time the card machine is 'broken' and they 'forget' to give a receipt.
Or as I found in Rome, your card mysteriously gets stuck in the ATM, but open enough for someone to take it. To be fair to our host, he was able to sort it.Cash is very much king in Italy...i'd say over 50% of the time the card machine is 'broken' and they 'forget' to give a receipt.
Are they those yellow ones? I think they're private ones - there's a certain knack of getting the card out. The only time it's ever happened to me was at a normal cash machine years ago- I just punched the screen and it came back out.Or as I found in Rome, your card mysteriously gets stuck in the ATM, but open enough for someone to take it. To be fair to our host, he was able to sort it.
Mostly so that we could withdraw a few hundred Euro to give him cash for our stay.
I lived in the depths of western Sicily for a while about 10 years ago - it's definitely got an edge to it in places. Once they see you a couple of times and you're paying cash you get a different price but that goes on across the country as a whole. You're more likely to get someone trying to rip you off in the north.Had the experience in Sicily. Eventually if you just look at them long enough the card machine will magically fix itself and they'll take the payment rather than losing the trade.
Can't imagine for one minute why I hated the place. Not a bunch of sketchy pricks everywhere at all.
Spon End Fish Bar take cards for purchases over £5.Don’t fish and chip shops generally take cash only?
Loads of places down here that are cash only and there are large queues at the supermarket self serves, that are cash and card (people actually say to the assistant, they are waiting to pay with cash) The card only tills, well, they are pretty much all available. And these are not old people queuing. It's well dodgy. Cash is king .Cash is for dodgy fuckers and old people at this point let’s be honest. We’ve had this convo before. The only time I touch cash is birthday presents for kids or buying drugs.
I get some people find it easier to budget with cash, but it seems like a silly reason to keep an entire physical infrastructure.
Would like to see banking opened up a bit though and peer to peer payments. And some kind of decentralised currency because I do think there’s value in money a particular government or institution can’t control. But cash ain’t that really either.
Gigolo’s don’t take cards….Yes my missus was in Sorrento last week and had to keep withdrawing money from the Cashpoints
I View attachment 31656think the dismissal, "and old people" is very concerning. Older people who find many aspects of modern technology difficult have the right to proper consideration. Many older people get their younger relatives to help them with technology which leaves them pretty vulnerable to abuse, coercive control and isolation. Much greater care of these people is required if we are an open, inclusive and compassionate society.
If it's b2b then bank transfer?For businesses transaction charges are unnecessary expense when a widely accessible free alterations is available
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Decathlon still baffles me with their checkout. Just put stuff in the box and it scans it.My favourite is still neither: the Amazon shops in London where you can just walk out with stuff cos it’s tracking you. Lovely.
Uniqlo is the sameDecathlon still baffles me with their checkout. Just put stuff in the box and it scans it.
Villa fans worried their fullback will leave on deadline day?Anyone seeen the graffiti that's started popping up everywhere, 'keep cash'?
Wonder if it was inspired by this thread?
Pay by phone only in car parks can be a right pain in the arse
They should really have a cash option too.Can’t understand why they haven’t just made the machines card only/tap to pay rather than having to do pay by phone
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