With fewer people relying on cash and many shops refusing to accept it, should businesses be forced to take cash payments? What impact would this have on customers and businesses?
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00:00I think the business would go up, wouldn't it?
00:02All I've got is cash here.
00:04I mean, I have got a card, but I use my money, you know.
00:07I think they should take cash, but I like cash.
00:10Because it feels more, like, old-school,
00:12it feels more old-fashioned.
00:14And it feels more wholesome.
00:15Credit feels like, I don't know, not evil, but cash is more fun.
00:20And I think it's more accessible for people.
00:22So, like, people who are homeless or don't have a credit card
00:24or can't get a credit card, it means that they're not excluded
00:27from, you know, shops and things like that.
00:30I think it's more annoying when they don't take cards.
00:34In this day and age, when everything's, like, sort of online
00:38or via a card, when you go somewhere and they're kind of iffy
00:42about accepting a card, that really annoys me.
00:45Not so much the cash, because I never have cash anyway.
00:48It's the card thing, when they won't accept.
00:50And there's all these notices about, oh, cash is king,
00:52or that annoys me more than the other way round.
00:55I think I'm quite happy that they don't take cash, personally.
00:58But...