On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:03:03 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
MM wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 06:26:33 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote:

MM wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Yes, some fools still use cash.

That's because it's quicker than cards.

Like hell it is than the most recent tap&pay cards
where you don't even need to enter a PIN, just
tap the card on the terminal. And with the best
of the checkouts, you can do that while the stuff
is still being scanned, don't need to wait until
the total value is known.

Not much point to your argument when nobody uses such cards. They may
do in very big conurbations like London, but not in most of Britain.
It'll probably happen eventually, but right now, cash is quicker. Just
the wait while the card issuer verifies the card, then the customer
inputting his PIN takes longer than simply handing over a tenner and
getting the change.

The whole point of the "tap & pay" cards is that you don't need a PIN. And
I've certainly used mine outside London.

Like I said, there will be ~some~ usage outside of London and the big
cities, which contain a lot of students and young workers. But in
rural Britain, i.e. practically the whole of Lincolnshire for example,
there isn't. People pay either with a card (inserted, not swiped) or
cash. One observes customers paying in cash at Aldi branches more
often than at other supermarkets and this is probably because Aldi
only started accepted the major cards like Mastercard quite recently.
My habit of paying with cash again stems from my 13 years as a guest
worker in West Germany, and still today most people in Germany pay for
their groceries shopping in cash.

MM