Asda to stop accepting Cheques

Diminutive

I'm not sure you'd be entirely stuck. Retailers still have the option of swiping credit and debit cards (they have to because not all foreign cards have chips) and requesting a signature.

That's not entirely true... yes foreign cards can be swiped and put through the traditional way. However the UK banks will not accept the signature as proof for a UK/chip enabled card. If you have a chip, you have to use chip and pin.

Personally, I don't see how carrying around a cheque book is safer than a card you need a 4 digit number for.

PeteW

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Be very careful, you may, if you are lucky, one day grow up to be a " Granny ".

And I will move with the times, and do things in the most efficient manner available to me. Not just stick with silly old ways just because it's the way I've always done it.

Take one Grandad I know, he refuses to use Tesco's Pay@Pump facility at the petrol station, because he "doesn't trust it", so instead he get's out of his car, walks to the shop, queues with the other rude people, then hands his card to an assistant (introducing an extra layer of risk), who then puts it in an 'untrustworthy' bloody machine anyway! Whilst the person behind him on the forecourt, who paid at the pump, was finished 10 minutes ago is still stuck waiting for him to move his car.

I don't care whether someone is a granny or not, these actions just makes no sense - it's stupid, rude and inconsiderate. Age is no excuse.

no1momuk

Always remember that wot you say now may come back to haunt you in the future. People should still be able to do what they feel safe with and we all have to get old don't forget.

no1momuk

With all this talk about cheques v chip and pin. Personally I use both, however in our local Morrisons on Friday the tills for chip and pin went don. Talk about panic. Cards were being delined all over the place, so out came the old machines that first came out, you remember big chunku things that you put the card in and a receipt over the top and the cashiers have to pull the over the receipt? Cheques do not take that much longer to use, it is only the supermarkets an stores that make them difficult. I still prefer cheques but feel my right to pay as I choose with my hard earned cash is being eroded away.

biscuit81_2

I think sometimes the Chip and Pin machines are not in the best place for an elderly person - a good example is the Waitrose ones, I struggle to reach the thing and I'm only 30!

no1momuk

This day and age everyone things chip and pin is brilliant, Personally I think supermarkets and all stores make things difficult for people who still prefer touse cheques. Cheques really don't take much longer than a chip and pin, the stores make it difficult. In our local Morrisions on Friday all the chip and pin machines went down Talk about PANIC:eek: cards were being declined all over the store, so the cashiers were having to accept cheques, then call someone over to authorise even though cheque cards were for £100, ridiculous! Morrisons implenting that practise, to make cheques difficult. The cashiers also had to then use three of the old type of debit card receipts, remember the old chunky machine in with the card, receipt over the top and pull across:rotfl: to cover all the tills. Stores are supposedly there to serve us who go out and earn our cash and we should be able to pay how we choose not the stores and for the young impatients in this world, remember you will get old and what you say now may come back to haunt you in the future when new technology thatyou 'don't trust' has someone calling you an old grandad.:rolleyes:

Blaster07

Boots had notices by the tills today, that from May they will no longer be accepting cheques either.

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PeteW wrote: »

Take one Grandad I know, he refuses to use Tesco's Pay@Pump facility at the petrol station, because he "doesn't trust it", so instead he get's out of his car, walks to the shop, queues with the other rude people, then hands his card to an assistant (introducing an extra layer of risk), who then puts it in an 'untrustworthy' bloody machine anyway! Whilst the person behind him on the forecourt, who paid at the pump, was finished 10 minutes ago is still stuck waiting for him to move his car.

That will be me then, sorry for holding you up .. :rotfl:

You will of course be on of the " Brits " that I mentioned earlier, flying about like a headless chicken, not really getting anywhere.

Now if Tesco's moved their Pay@Pump away from us old codgers, you wouldn't keep getting held up would you?

:rotfl: :rotfl:

Actually I wouldn't buy Tesco's crappy petrol after the last fiasco.

C_Ronaldo

cheques wont be in use for much longer well not in sainsburys stores

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C_Ronaldo wrote: »

cheques wont be in use for much longer well not in sainsburys stores

Great !!!!!