{"id":215704,"date":"2020-10-29T08:28:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T08:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215704"},"modified":"2020-10-31T07:03:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T07:03:20","slug":"shoppers-forced-to-leave-food-and-medicine-as-retailers-wouldnt-take-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215704","title":{"rendered":"Shoppers forced to leave food and medicine as retailers wouldn&#8217;t take cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sam Meadows \u2013 The Telegraph Oct 28, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/cashless_society_public_domain_460x345.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-126785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/cashless_society_public_domain_460x345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>Shoppers who tried to pay with cash have been forced to leave food and medicine behind after being turned away at the tills, Which? warned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The consumer group said it had received nearly 2,500 reports to its cash acceptance tool from people who said a retailer had refused to take their <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/10\/10\/cash-usage-halves-three-years-amid-fears-coronavirus-has-accelerated\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>notes and coins during the pandemic<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Of those respondents, 43 per cent said they did not have another payment method on them so were not able to buy the item they wanted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Four in 10 said they had problems buying food or groceries, one in seven at coffee shops or restaurants and one in 10 paying for parking. Almost 20 per cent of respondents said they had left empty-handed when trying to pay for medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Which? said the experience had left some shoppers fearing for how they would cope if further lockdown measures were introduced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Richard Piggin, head of campaigns at Which?, said that a \u201crapid move\u201d towards a cashless society risked <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/10\/15\/cashback-shops-without-purchase-government-plans-save-cash\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>excluding the vulnerable<\/strong><\/span><\/a> from vital products and services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He added: \u201cWe\u2019re alarmed at the reports of people leaving food and medicine behind because they can\u2019t pay with cash, and it underlines how important it is to have a coordinated approach to protecting the fragile cash system.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">However Andrew Cregan, of the British Retail Consortium, a trade body, said all major retailers continue to accept cash or card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He added: \u201cMany people continue to rely on cash, including those most vulnerable, especially for budgeting and control purposes. Not everyone has a credit or debit card available to them, yet everyone needs access to essential goods and services.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/10\/28\/shoppers-forced-leave-food-medicine-retailers-wouldnt-take-cash\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from using it to promote mass vaccinations and more extensive surveillance, the Covid pandemic is also being used to pave the way for a cashless society <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs","category-Economics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215706,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215704\/revisions\/215706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}