• AS I walk to the supermarket each day I see an extended queue snaking around the corner of my local bank.

Visits to the post office entail a long queue. These queues are a visual demonstration of the fact that we are not all “online”.

Whether it is shopping, banking, or posting parcels many people need a “bricks and mortar” building and “face-to-face” interaction.

The plans to make us a “cashless” society, dependent on the internet, will make us easy targets for sophisticated tech companies and their marketing strategies, allow fraudsters greater opportunity to steal from us, and disenfranchise millions of us.

ETHAN POD
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