Cash is important

Unless AIB is Irelands Central Bank (thats what the https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/html/index.en.html is right) then no I don't even think they have an obligation to stay in business. My primary checking account is with an online only company, to say they don't handle cash at all is an understatement. People can still use cash but their local AIB was never an Entitlement Program was it?

If its a low involvement purchase and you dont take cash then im out, ill go next door.

if its something like a car i can understand.

but anyway, can we please not do this, i dont want yet more numbers to call when a computer says no.

bring the thing to the counter, give cash, the end. this is normality, it doesn't involve a reboot or an app or a manager or a call center or an asian telling me his name is patrick. just leave the cash alone. it works.

(yes banks should be obliged to work with cash)

A cashless society is a dreadful idea.

keep going til i find an alternative. someone will take the cash, and so they'll have an advantage over competition.

i dont know why anyone, other than some manager on a mission to cut costs and redirect them into his pocket, would celebrate no cash option.

someone in a data center can declare my account hacked, wipe me out for a week at the push of a button and leave me scrambling for old emails, household bills and 2fa texts at 11pm, im so modern.

i was about to use the jax, but someone in Nigeria got hold of my sort code. and theres no coin slot because we're too cool for that these days.

lets live our lives based on what junkies might do.

Was abroad a couple of years ago and ulster bank went down for a couple of weeks. Lesson learned.

Ran a retail business for years, always what's the cash price ? Told them it's the same probably better for me to get card than cash for a while load of reasons. "But yet man will do it for x for cash"!. Sound, let him cos he gives no warranty and honestly when he gets done he will take a lot of cash deposits with him.

Changed jobs and ended up working for a retailer and again all cash, to the point where they thought they were loosing money cos the books had such small figures while the cash was tens of grand a week.

Now I'm happy, business to business and it's all EFT card or cheque if you are old. Revenue are a beast they are the only govt department apart from the pdf that I respect and they will catch all the cash people.

I pay my taxes you pay your taxes and let's not worry about cash.

Why would a business risk losing customers by not accepting cash?

My business is primarily card transactions, but if someone wants to pay cash, then cash it is. Virtually everyone below the age of 30 pays by card/phone, but above that age, we have a few people every day who want to hand over notes. What benefit to me would it be to refuse cash? None, from a business perspective it is better to mildly inconvenience us by lodging in the evenings than to refuse a method of payment preferred by many.

Incidentally, in relation to staff theft. There was a recent case in a business down the street from me. The owner told me a staff member had stolen tens of thousands from a builders wholesalers by putting fictitious refunds onto his own card. The owner said he would more likely have noticed if it was cash missing.

Don’t be so naive, nothing will eradicate tax fraud, eradicating cash will just make fraudsters use other methods.

cashless society = control

can people not see this or do they not care anymore?

Let's live our lives based on what some lad in a call centre or Nigeria might do.