North East: Should all businesses accept both cash and card?

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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...

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