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Good job I’ve not got round to eating those sandwiches I bought ON WEDNESDAY

Please let us not stir up that whole 'is a sandwaich still a sandwich or multiples thereof once cut and divided' hornet's nest. We're all knocking on a bit now and time is at a premium these days.

Five live going big on cash payments up 7% last year. So, after the pandemic largely died down, people started paying by cash a bit more. Whodathunkit?

A lot of people on the yard I run have gone back to paying with cash rather than bank transfer or Paypal, their reasons generally being; The whole "use it or lose it" campaign is gaining momentum. The conspiracy theory idea of us all only having a digital banking system and the governments having more control over us, our movements, our spending. A social credit system like in China going alongside our fifteen minute cities etc, the fact that some banks have added things in to their T&C about capping spending and withdrawals in a banking crisis making it feel like it really might happen. It has made people more and more determined to use cash (whether rightly or wrongly) in the hopes that it will stop, or delay, whatever it is people think will happen world wide with the central bank thing. 
A few people have said it just makes it easier to keep track of their spending, but most say they are scared of losing cash all together one day.

I presumed by "cash" the comparison was versus credit, rather than digital v. physical. But I could be wrong.

I’m cognisant of the risk that losing cash could have dystopian consequences.. but I don’t know when I last used any. I don’t carry it. There’s about $10 in ‘just in case’ cash sitting in my backpack and I reckon it’s older than Covid. Australia is well ‘ahead’ of the curve on all this.. Macquarie, the fifth largest bank (and ‘innovative’ lender of choice to the wannabe elite of English football) are scrapping cash services. Mind you, the government tried to enact some law limiting use of cash a while back and, IIRC, it was effectively opposed and quietly dropped. Unfortunately, as you might imagine, the people most vocally concerned about the guvmnt taking their cash away are the last people you’d want to be aligned with. They make the pro-Vaping crowd look like a diverse and enlightened selection of society.

www.bbc.com/news/business-66796263

It's people using physical cash, rather than digital.
Obviously during covid a lot of people did not like using cash and exchanging physical items with other people, but now more people are reverting back to using cash rather than beeping a card or phone.

I guess this is just a 'correction' compared to the covid years then where many businesses refused to use cash, and we all purchased stuff online. Rather than being a true rise in cash as any sort of trend.

I always, always carry at least $100 - you never know when you'll be in a situation where your card or phone isn't an option. I don't use it all that much, but it seems mad not to have some on you.

The US is still relatively cash centric. Gas stations in New Jersey still offer two prices, one for cash and one about 10c higher for credit.

Most of my trades guys prefer to deal in cash as well, and give me a discount for doing so. So they're presumably doing a fair amount of their spending in cash.

Presumably because the likes of Russ' trade guys aren't declaring it all on their tax return.

Yes, when trades people do that and talk about not charging VAT if it's cash what they don't say as well of course is they aren't planning to pay income tax either. They are generally quite happy to use hospitals, schools, other public services and complain about the cost to the taxpayer of asylum seekers though. It's deplorable.

I wonder who this ex England international could be flogging old shirts in Derbyshire. Hodge has form but he didn't get on the pitch at Italia 90 so presume not him.

Waddle or Steven at a guess.