Shonky bakery

[PhilT]

@mark_m

Other wise the outcome suggests every business that removes POS facilities should also be named here and join the shonky club.

I don’t agree or suggest anyone nominated the Shonky bakery for just removing the EFTPOS facility, it was for that combined with installing a private ATM having $2.50 fee in a country town at the same time.

@mark_m

I agree there is scope for a separate topic that considers the pro’s and cons of a cashless society,

Cash Only Businesses

@mark_m’s post could be interesting, so I’ll start this thread and move the relevant posts here. For the cashless folks, there is an older thread you might enjoy, https://choice.community/t/apparitions-of-a-cashless-society/15333

and as I referenced therein

Apparitions of a Cashless Society and an Online connected Life

Edit: New readers to this topic can join it from 31 March 2023 by clicking here. While the cashless society gets more hype every year, and the banks get ongoing get-out-of-jail-free cards for their malfeasance, reality is that our banks have very ordinary leadership right down to their IT systems where they seem to worry about every penny applied. But the markets and the pollies worship two things - profits and dividends, so customers become collateral damage. Customers should be compensated …

@mark_m

the POS has lost comms.

I do not understand why that stands for point of sale terminal these days when it has traditionally had another meaning more appropriate and more general in nature