Sweden: How to Live in the World's First Cashless Society

[Dagenham Rover]

There was a bloke in my local Sainsburys today bucket collecting for a dog rescue charity. I duly stopped to donate and drop some cash in the bucket and noticed that he had a card payment machine with him for card donations! First time i've seen that but i guess they have no option but to move with the times as a hell of a lot of people these days won't go to the supermarket with cash.

It will no longer be viable for them to just have a bucket.

Trouble with that is the card machine operators usually take a %  the card mastercard visa or whoever will take a % so my quids worth of loose change is gone if I donated a quid by card

Most have exemptions for charity transactions and you'll find there are loads of various fees for different people.

I don't use much cash, no real need to, rarely do I have any.  Got a cashback credit card, it's the way to go if you can manage your money yourself.

On holiday last year site was only taking card and table service etc I used to look each morning and think wtf hate to think if it was an old fashioned bank manager errrrm scuse me i think you have a problem