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Old 09-02-2022, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Mrmean58 View Post
My wife and I vacationed the UK for three weeks this past July. I went with some British Pounds to use for small purchases and much to my surprise nearly every business insisted on customers using their charge cards. They don't want to handle currency. I could count on one hand when I was able to use the GBP. Came home with nearly all the GBPs I took. Just an FYI. And before any says "they can't do that" they did. So if you want to eat sleep and travel, have your charge cards ready and I recommend you use a card that doesn't charge exchange fees.
You are right. Many shops and businesses in UK will not handle cash.
Even my UK bank is cash free, unless from a cash machine!
Funny,as before Covid nobody would accept a CC for less than £5 transaction as it wasn't economical.
Now they will take it for pennies.
Funny old world!

Last edited by Two Bills; 09-03-2022 at 12:30 PM.