Methods of payment

[Flick of the Elbow]

One suspects adoption of these snazzy services will be slow in UK (but not as glacial as Germany and USA). Too much legacy infrastructure.

In fact, that's the whole point, it allows a service that by passes legacy infrastructure. The banks that hold the accounts will still be saddled with the same overheads but the fintechs won't.

 

[Leaway2]

Esso if I remember correctly, you collected Tiger Tokens.

And the world cup player coins

I always got postal orders in the 60's for my birthday.

Online banking now, always use contact less or chip and pin if not. I very rarely use cash

 

[Dan B]

I use cash for quite a lot mostly because having eleventy billion small contactless transactions on my bank statement makes it basically impossible to get a broad picture of where the money is going each month. If my bank (First Direct, quite good in other respects) had a less awful android app, that would probably change things

 

[classic33]

Why? Do you like sticking your fingers in the mucus of others? At least ATM keypads tend to be metal, get wiped down with cleaning products sometimes (especially as people vomit on them sometimes...) and can be pushed with a stick if you really need to use that one (last one in sight with cash left in or something), but has anyone ever seen a shop clean a pin pad, even 24 hour ones visited at strange times?

Yes. Baby wipes used at the local Tesco & Sainsburys.

 

[mjr]

I use cash for quite a lot mostly because having eleventy billion small contactless transactions on my bank statement makes it basically impossible to get a broad picture of where the money is going each month. If my bank (First Direct, quite good in other respects) had a less awful android app, that would probably change things

All apps are awful (NSFW - and you'll need to change ar to uc in the link). They should offer useful download formats so you can import it into a decent finance app and do the analysis if you want.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

even the vending machines in Denmark/Sweden take debit cards. Cash is dying.

 

[MacB]

Pah, if they try to take cash away I'm going back to Tally sticks

 

[Yellow Fang]

Pah, if they try to take cash away I'm going back to Tally sticks

Didn't they use leaves in Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy, although the over availability of leaves led to rampant inflation, leading to a programme of deforestation to get the money supply back under control.

 

[Drago]

Was it Esso giving away Smurfs in the 70s? One of my neighbours was a truck driver, gave me hundreds of the damn things.

 

[classic33]

Was it Esso giving away Smurfs in the 70s? One of my neighbours was a truck driver, gave me hundreds of the damn things.

Check if you're feeling blue. The BSCC has gone though.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I use cash for quite a lot mostly because having eleventy billion small contactless transactions on my bank statement makes it basically impossible to get a broad picture of where the money is going each month. If my bank (First Direct, quite good in other respects) had a less awful android app, that would probably change things

That's where something like to Monzo card comes in.