Anyone else still pay by cash?

Caddyman

A pint in my local boozer, is just under a fiver. Is it any wonder why a lot of the small pubs are closing.

I did a pub crawl on the Embankment in 2025 and it cost 7 quid a pint in every pub we visited. The cheapest boozer we visited, was Spoons near Tower Bridge. I won't be doing a pub crawl in London ever again!

oldernonethewiser

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82020703#Comment_82020703

40 pence for a soda and lime in various Wetherspoon pubs I have been in. Free water too.

alanwsg

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82022674#Comment_82022674

Free water in any pub. It's part of their licensing conditions.

Cisco001

I don't pay by cash apart from going to market.

Card or gift card due to cashback.

Cisco001

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82011811#Comment_82011811

Not necessary power cut, it could be internet of the shop go down and they can't do card payment.

I had it 2 times before. One at poundland, the other time was Greggs.

UKX69

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82019824#Comment_82019824

12 quid for two pints!!! 😮…Glad I packed in drinking 23 years ago. Mind you, I remember a little back street house that had been converted into a pub that sold only rough cider..1/6d (7.1/2 pence for the youngsters among us), that would be the late 1960s - blotto on two pints.

booneruk

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82023079#Comment_82023079

The ol 'legal tender' sovereign-citizen misunderstanding again. That's only a thing when settling a debt in court.

See how well that works on a london bus etc. You'll end up down the police station no matter how furiously you rant about 'legal tender'

boingy

In the past week I have used cash at a car boot sale, at several car parks in Dorset where the only other option was to install yet another App (no option to pay by card), and in a supermarket purely to get some coins for those car parks! I also used a pound coin in a supermarket trolley.

oldernonethewiser

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82022864#Comment_82022864

It is indeed. Apparently they can charge for the use of a glass though.

greyteam1959

Trouble with a lot of the parking apps is they charge you 20p on top of the parking charge.

At the the one in my town does.

Being a bit MSE I never use it.