Is A Cashless Society Feasible?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43645676
I see the Olivers are giving it a go but a lot of older people are struggling. Oddly enough I only use cash in places like bars and cafes etc but it would not be much of a leap to go cashless. I know that Gregorys are on the way out but do you think bangers and mash will follow?

[jourdain2]

JD - They used the occasion to make their first foreign jaunt (I should have explained). S-i-L was a lorry-driver so was used to traversing countries and talked them into crossing the border.

[Tuvok]

Our buses now have contactless facility on their ticket machines.

Fair (or should that be fare!!!) enought - but there is a £30 limit on contactless payments.

My weekly ticket is over £30!

[Jackdaw33]

Apparently London buses no longer accept cash.

[Jackdaw33]

SIL is confusing. Is it sister-in-law or son-in-law?

[Zacs-Master]

Smash the cotton Gin, smash the machines. They’re all the devil’s work.

For gawd sake.

[New Judge]

"Apparently London buses no longer accept cash."

Haven't done so for probably two years or so.

[Zacs-Master]

The Latvian lads down the car wash are probably the only cash transaction I do. Anywhere. Oh, and tipping in restaurants.

[EDDIE51]

I heard that a main argument for abolition of cash is the reduction in crime it will bring. I would be interested in your view NJ.

[jourdain2]

Son-in-law, NJ.

Z - M No-one is opposing machines, Luddite-fashion. Let those who will use them do so. Merely defending a system which has operated for millennia and which we wish to preserve alongside the more modern methods. Not an equivalence. :)