In its weekly voxpop, the Advertiser found out how businesses in the town feel about the idea of going cashless and how it would affect them.
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00:0090% of our customers are retired or old age pensioners, so they're from an era of cash.
00:14So if you took all that away, then it'd probably take away our business altogether, if you
00:18know what I mean.
00:19So it'd be very disastrous for us, really.
00:21I mean, going cashless for me is not a big deal.
00:26People generally pay by card here anyway.
00:30So would it affect my business?
00:32I doubt it.
00:35What do people pay cash for here?
00:37Greetings cards, sort of £2.50 each.
00:41That's generally a cash deal.
00:42It wouldn't, I don't think it would affect me.
00:45Should we go cashless as a society?
00:48Absolutely not.
00:49Because when we do, then we have no control over our own money.
00:55I don't think it's a very good idea at all.
00:57I think it would exclude a lot of people.
01:00I just think that if, I just don't think it's a good idea.
01:05Yeah, I mean, we've never really considered going cashless because we've got a lot of
01:09customers who use cash and find it easier and more comfortable.
01:12So I mean, if it was enforced, we wouldn't really want that because I feel like it isolates
01:19a lot of our customer base who are otherwise more comfortable paying with cash.
01:26I think you should take cash personally.
01:30So any transaction that the customer wants to use, the customer is the most important
01:36part of any business.
01:37So I feel that you should take all currencies, the card, cash, the phone, whatever people
01:44want to pay with.
01:46I can't see the purpose of going totally cashless.