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I haven't used my card in an ATM machine for 6 months
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I reckon I use the cash point about once a week - much reduced need for cash, certainly, but I'm still using it at our corner shop (box of eggs, occasional pie or a paper for me mam), to tip the Domino's delivery driver, to leave a tip in the coffee shop, to pay for my haircut (when I could get one), to pay at the hand car wash (when it was open), and one of the local chippies doesn't take cards (which is probably a bad sign in other ways but their salt & pepper chicken is the best around).
I'd say the main areas where I've switched to contactless have been Greggs, Nero, Maccy's drive-thru and the Post Office.
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Cash machine is the term I would use. To the best of my knowledge I’ve never heard anyone says ATM.
And ?45 is the contactless limit these days - anything over that will need a pin. But these days, who is making purchases of greater than that in person? If it’s bought online, then the pin isn’t required.
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Originally posted by Janik View PostAnd ?45 is the contactless limit these days - anything over that will need a pin. But these days, who is making purchases of greater than that in person?
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Originally posted by Janik View PostAll the parking meters that take coins that I’ve come across in the last year have had some kind of option to pay by card or phone as well. Indeed sometimes the coin slot has been taped off and it is only the card/phone payments that are possible.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostPeople who have a family and who are trying to go to the supermarket as infrequently as possible. Which is fair number of people.
* - you only need to confirm you items 24 hours prior to the delivery, but need to reserve the slots more forward than that.
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Originally posted by Janik View PostHave a family, trying to go to the supermarket as infrequently as possible and are not organised enough to book home delivery slots over a fortnight in advance*, you mean. Because someone doing everything they could to go to the supermarket as infrequently as possible currently would be going there never.
* - you only need to confirm you items 24 hours prior to the delivery, but need to reserve the slots more forward than that.
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I do need to draw out a tenner or two once a month or so to cover small purchases - the four convenience stores within a mile of my house don't take any kind of card payments for any transactions under three or five quid.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
Hmm. Ok. Perhaps. For some people. (Can't do that here for example). And what i have heard of home delivery from supermarkets is that it's a bit hit or miss, and you don;t always end up with what you wanted. But sure, if you say so.
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I've barely used cash over the past ten months, but withdrew a tenner before Christmas to give my cleaner a small bonus. She repaid this extraordinary act of kindness by breaking a picture frame in my hallway.
Originally posted by Sporting View PostI went two days ago to withdraw money and will do so again today, I like cash.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View Postwhat i have heard of home delivery from supermarkets is that it's a bit hit or miss, and you don;t always end up with what you wanted.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostI've barely used cash over the past ten months, but withdrew a tenner before Christmas to give my cleaner a small bonus. She repaid this extraordinary act of kindness by breaking a picture frame in my hallway.
Not many retailers do at present, however.
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Originally posted by diggedy derek View PostAm I the only one who keeps a small wodge of cash at home in case the whole grid comes crashing down and I need to feed my family.
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Originally posted by Sporting View PostNo problem here at all.
Do you especially want to be handling change at the moment, though? Not sure I do.
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On the terminology/language issues raised above:
I've always generally used the expression "cash point" for an ATM, but I vaguely recall that's one of those cases where a trademark (belonging to Lloyds as far as the UK is concerned?) gets used generically, like "hoover". "ATM" is technically correct.
"EFTPOS" may not be in common parlance in the UK but you see it all over English banking documents, so it's in common use here as a legal technical term.
Never heard "pay wave" before, but it's neat - more expressive than "contactless".
The UK limit for contactless has been raised (in response to COVID hygiene concerns) to, what, ?45?
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