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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Business
Vicky Shaw

Some 52% of people ‘have recently been somewhere refusing or discouraging cash’

Nearly two-thirds of people surveyed for Link said they are unlikely to go completely cashless in the next 12 months (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Archive)

More than three-quarters (76%) of people believe it is important to have the option to pay with cash and four-fifths (82%) think all shops should accept it, a survey has found.

More than half (52%) of people said they had been somewhere during the previous two months that had not accepted or had discouraged the use of cash – and 56% said this was an inconvenience to them.

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