Tesco's banning cash

the wheels are in motion

Might be part of the agreement to sell their banking operations to Barclays.

want to keep an eye on what you're spending ya money on ....

Cash is finish ffs wize up.

Kill the drug trade a good bit…..save a lot of families from heartbreak……

No scum hoodies running around on bikes collecting…..

Even buskers have card readers these days. Drug dealers will adjust.

Maybe I should pitch a television drama where the drug gangs are taken down by a bunch of nerds in NatWest's anti-fraud department. Shades of Al Capone and income tax.

The story I read says it's 40 of their cafés that are going cashless
Still very wrong
Luckily, down here in the West Country, there is still plenty of cafés, takeaways etc that are "cash only"... Some of the visitors can't believe it
Nothing like having a nice wad in the sky rocket, imo

Kill the betting ring ….

I agree with Foyles, fcuk 'em.

I was on an easyjet flight recently, they announced that it was a cashless flight. When they got to me I ordered a toastie and a coffee, when they brought them I offered them a tenner. The girl said it was card only, I told her I didn't have a card and gave the items back, 30 secs later she brought them back and said I might as well have them now.

I know we will be cashless within the next 20 years but I can have a little fun for a few years.

Imagine if everyone boycotted the shops, cafes, sporting events and clubs that are cashless and don't give anyone a choice.

Unfortunately, as proven over the last few years, the majority are just clueless sheeple who go along with everything they are told by their TV they watch and newspaper they read.

Stupid sheeple everywhere.

DG, done exactly the same thing myself on a jet2 flight
They also let me have the food and drink for nothing
Ten minutes later I bought my duty free for cash
How does that work? Only part cashless

i use cash as much as i can , obviously if betting online ya cant but for most other stuff cash is king .......cash you have some control left !

Hello foyles, me too, I only use cash

BTW, we need to get a win or 2 soon, otherwise gonna be a long season in the drop zone

evening reg I read somewhere about truck drivers who went on strike and the vast majority of them were cashless ..government shut em down froze their cards and accounts ,the drivers had to give in or be completely fooked !

that was in Canada iirc ^^^^

Canada? Sounds more llke Russia or North Korea

Louis Vuitton,Rolex would fold if they went cashless

Puts people off going racing as well, pay entrance by card, drinks & Food all by card, prefer to pay cash out of my days kitty rather than looking at Sandown beer prices on my statement in 2 months time or spend more than i had planned and bills due out of bank account .

I prefer to pay for everything with the tap of my phone/watch, makes things easier for me. Agreed there should be a choice though.

choice is essential, cash must remain

Here exactly the opposite, Chinese and  2 fish n Chip shops cash only, must be absolutely raking it in.

I think supermarkets must allow both forms of transaction; cards are convenient and no banking issue but cash is dodgy-card free, tax positive but not security. The Chinese takeaways and Fish & Chips prefer cash mostly.

Authoritarian power grab in full swing next 4 years - if you missed the beginning you weren't paying attention

Herding you and yours into the perma digital panopticon via baby steps and zig zag

Remember 'the State' is your single source of truth(lies) from hereon in chaps


‘War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.’

when we were in Hamburg recently there werea  lot of places that were cash only.

apparently its common in Germany were cash is definatley king

Cashless would cleanse the country from dirt & infestation……

I doubt you would see much vermin wanting to invade…..

All that dirt being sold on the streets would end….

Big deal if you can’t have cash in the wallet….

the correct story is 40 tesco cafes are going cashless, these are the ones if your are lucky to have on in your town where you tap a screen to order food in the same way many fast food places do, u tap pay and go sit and the food appears quickly rather than queuing 10 mins behind people that can't make their mind up, makes total sense, has nothing to do with food as it stands

id never visit a tesco cafe but the maccyd cistern is excellent as you dont have to stand near the low-life that infest most of em. and its rapid

i didnt visit until this was in place and now a regular muffin eater

i happened on one last week, had a coffee while waiting on keys being cut, loads of screens ordered in 10 secs and no queue, miles better

Are drug dealers cashless too?

some are yes, they use phone transfers would you like some weed?

Cheers 'elise'. I've never thought of that. I've only started using Deliveroo and Just Eat last May when I was ill and unable to self-provide.

crypto, darkweb, some have even got a line in fobt tickets or meat knicked from aldi, it's not rocket salad

Very entrepreneurial and creative to make money. This must only be good for the UK economy. No wonder our GDP rose last year despite challenging conditions.

Is Ms Reeves clued up with this sector of entrepreneurialism? I'm sure more revenue could be extracted from participants.

by all accounts they're up with gamblers getting taxed so i'd imagine once they have us they'll be going after dodgy meat crypto ebay/gumtree and any other loophole they can get

eeerrrmm didnt a recent microsoft breakdown cause panic across the u k

shirley a power cut would be catastrophic

crowdstrike did, frankly we've become so reliant on tech im not sure what many people would do if it gets fecked whether accident or deliberate, just see all the under 30s being annoyed when they can't post videos of rockets going over and then not having any fake friends to moan with

if you are (k)nicking meat aldi isnt the place to do it as it isnt readily saleable, unlike waity or s&m

some people have been raping them by attaching barcodes of very cheap items of the same weight as more expensive ones to the underside of their digits and putting through the self-service terminals

i know a geezer who has a transit van full of it. half price everything. its a bit like the old mobile shop we had but most of you wont know about that

Mitolo, we had a mobile shop for "pop"
Came round every week selling all flavours... dandelion and burdock, raspberryade etc
Plus the coalman, potato man, bread man

I do not have the brains. If I did I'd come up with a software that would make smart phones to self-destruct if used continuously by the same individual for more than 2 hrs each time just like a vehicle parking restriction eg 1 hr only, and do not return within 2 hrs.

indeed reginald. barrs, if i remember right. the problem the geezer had was whenver he stopped we would charge his wagon and grab whatever we could

and he could only catch one of us. i aimed for the cream soda

corona - aimed for the dandelion and burdock

why would the millions of people who like going cashless boycott firms that are providing a service they like/agree with ?

When some major firms had an internet 'outage' and they were waiting in queues for petrol or whatever, and those who had no spare cash on them were frantically rushing to cashpoint whilsts hoping the machine hadn't run out...how much were they 'liking / agreeing' with it then?

It was a taste of what could happen in a cashless society, not to mention the control that could be placed over people as witnessed by what went on in Canada over the covid policy protests by the truckers, when it wasn't just the truckers who had their accounts frozen, it was also those who had donated millions of dollars to the crowdfunding page that had been set up to support them.

big govt in bed with big banks, Mussolini had a word for that sort of thing....

Corona cherryade   

If you want to fully understand the implications of a cashless society - you need the expert opinions of a cashless person imo.

Where is F4rty this morning?

How many carry cash on a daily ?

i always use cash whenever possible and always will do cash is king cash = freedom! long live cash !

fight the cashless clowns !

Most punters will be cashless…..

cashless they have you by the balls ........don't make it easy for them!

I don’t want cashless foyles,just said it would probably finish the street vermin selling the poison…we are addicted to the paper…

My children  9 and 12 love receiving cash (coins and notes) and putting it in their money boxes. Every few weeks they get it out and count it. I agree totally cash is king.....always carry at least £100 in my wallet minimum as you never know when you will need it.

tescos no cash the 40 cafeteria outlets .............get that in and then push for complete cashless!

Scary thing is ice cream vans and farmers markets have card scanners….must admit to having £140 in my wallet for the past month or so…..just seems so easy to hold the card against a machine…..

oh it is much easier with the card I live a minute away from a supermarket and I am in there 2 or 3 times a day they have 8 self service card  only outlets and 2 cash only ,fortunately the q for the cash onlys is never more than one or 2 people .

I go to car boots and cash is king there !

Must admit never give it a thought whether i have cash in wallet or not these days , becoming an outdated concept so happy to go with the flow as there seems more safety benefits with no cash floating around.

cashless wont stop drugs being bought and sold ,might slow it down a bit but wont stop it, they will find ways.

estonia is the most tech-dependent country in the world and everything is on-line and russia gave it a proper meltdown and closed the gaff. it was a doddle and its 1.001 it will happen with big knobs on whenever rasputin gets the ump

no better reason for paper- er.. plastic money

i always have a few quid in me callards as you never know when your card will blow up. overuse does it to me, and bangers came in handy