Jul 05, 2017 14:01
Another shop tries to ensure I won't use their self-service checkouts: the Co-Op has disabled cash on their existing self-service checkouts (at a local store), and is installing new self-service checkouts that are card only (at another local store).
It's not that I don't have payment cards; I have half a dozen of them with plenty of spending power, thank you very much, because I'm financially secure in this society and I live here.
I object to card only: cashless is regressive on foreign travellers, on the poor, and on anyone unfortunate enough to have the third party in the transaction - the card issuer who doesn't care about the transaction happening - decide to decline.
I will continue to pay cash at the Co-Op and I will rate their service on whether their staffed till is fast, no matter if there are self-service checkouts free. Let us see how that goes.