Luton Have Gone Cashless

Apart from the poor sods who keep having their view interrupted by a constant procession of pie-eaters leaving their seats mid-game. It's bad enough that some folk can't manage 45 minutes without jumping up for a slash.

 

I went to buy a ticket on the day at the box office the season before last............was told it was cash only!!

Absolutely mental

 

That's nothing, have you seen the St Pauli sausage train?

 

Is that prison slang? ;-)

 

I very rarely have any cash on me, and pay for almost every thing on card - I just can’t see the point in drawing cash out these days to sit in my wallet

 

Pay with card the VAT man and TAX man get their share....pay with cash and hey fiddle diddle....the back pocket opens up

 

The only time I use cash is at work. A colleague does a Greggs sausage sandwich trip on the last Friday of the month and I need cash to pay her back. I know there’s various ways to send money across but she wouldn’t have anything set up and handing her a couple of quid is easier. The special school is always selling various bits the students have made to raise money so I need cash for that and also to put money on my card for if I fancy buying food at school (which is rare to be fair).

 

What about staff collections?

 

Spurs are cashless in the ground as well. That's a lot of card machines in a stadium that big

 

Unfortunately we had a small cache (cash) of old pound coins we were going to exchange when we visited UK but Covid meant we had to abort the trips twice so now worthless.
Cashless is fine until you get a situation like here in Italy where personal banking is not free. You pay for all transactions and even cash withdrawals from ATMs albeit if you use your own branch ATM it is free. In addition, you pay one off a fee upfront for getting/renewing your Debit/credit cards etc. Our bank is quite some distance but when we are in the area we tend to draw out a largish sum ( around 1 or 2k euros) and pay cash for shopping etc. Otherwise there is a cash limit on the local ATM at the end of our road (different bank ) of 250 euros and it is 2 euros a pop. Using the Bancomat (debit card) at teh local supermarket or restaurant etc is 1 euro a pop so it tots up. Banking here is expensive and we pay well over 200 euros p.a. for the privilege of putting all out money in a current account/home safe. (deposit accounts pay virtually no interest) and investment is risky as well as any dividends etc attract 26% capital gains tax and you pay a flat rate tax on the actual value of the fund annually.

Not complaining as it is fact of life here, as is the need for everyone to have a commercialista (accountant) to sort out their annual tax return (no such thing as PAYE), but just pointing out moving to cashless, whilst very convenient, may well be followed by UK banks arguing infrastructure costs require an end to free banking and you will pay every time you use a card.

 

I for one do not want to go cashless, having been scammed once I do not use internet banking & have no desire to in the future , I do use a credit card but I also rely on using cheques , if I need to forward money to members of my family for what ever reason then for me it is the safest & easiest way , I also buy & sell on Facebook local sales groups & find cash deals to be the only method I use , I say each to their own & believe traditional ways can run along side the modern methods , hopefully it stays this way .

 

Its the minimum spend for me in some shops, a loaf of bread and a pint of milk, " you have to spend a fiver mate" " ok, no thanks"

 

Didn't you pay contactless in the old club shop

 

That too! And the £1 for ‘non uniform’ days.

 

Same nonsense re cash dying out being pedalled by certain media including the BBC as the recent..."petrol stations will become hard to find sooner than you think".

Can't' see sports groundsmen-football, rugby, golf course , forestry workers and people with large gardens giving up their mowers strimmers hedge trimmers chainsaws etc . They would either need bloody long cables or muscles like Arnold Swarzenegger to hold battery powered ones or lug spares around capable of lasting a full day. Then there are the farmers and there is no way electric tractors and Combine Harvesters, plus the many of the HGV lorries and trailers carrying up to 20 tons plus of straw bales at a time and return for more., can realistically be replaced with Electric.
The self levelling Combines here are huge machines and due to the terrain (some fields on hillsides have 1 in 4 slopes) and the farmers have specific ploughing, seeding, harvesting and baling, winrowing pattern based on years of experience, handed down from generations as far back as when Oxen were used to pull ploughs. We know of two English expats from the 'Citeh' who fancied themselves as 'Gentlemen farmers' with no experience of farming who killed themselves when they tried to plough the land they had bought and turned their tractors over by going across the slope . No way any electric tractor could cope with the steepness of the hills and heavy clay soil even when they plough one-way downhill on steep fields as they then have to travel twice the distance having to go back to the top with the plough raised to do the next strip. At certain harvest times Combines are running 24/7 as Farmer Co-operatives hire them with operator and they go direct from farm to farm and field to field when the crops are optimal. Then there are the high pressure irrigation pumps needed in dry weather that feed and pressurise the watering hoses in the fields also diesel driven.

Those promoting electric cars seem mainly to be townies who are clueless as to the impact of the headlong rush to electric on anyone who lives works in a rural area.