TruXta
tired
Not sure about that.
Crown and Anchor pub, Brixton Road, Brixton goes card-only
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SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
I'm amazed people can be entirely cash-based these days (not even using credit union etc)
lefteri
Well-Known Member
When I was on benefits I used to try and use cash for most things. When you are on means tested benefits you are asked for bank statements every now and again and these are copied and filed - I think it is a gross invasion of privacy for state institutions and their staff to see everything I spend my money on. And the first person to say the words 'nothing to hide' gets a slap
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hiraethified
Indeed. If you're using credit cards/contactless then all your purchases are recorded and mapped.
DietCokeGirl
Fishing in the rivers of life
Many people have a basic post office account, with a basic card you can use to withdraw your cash but not for payments in store or online/by phone.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Yeah I know, but according to retro's link, of those that don't have a bank account....
It's the 27% that amaze me
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Quite. Some of us who are at times economically challenged aren't keen on having what we spend our money on recorded.
Also my debit card has fifty pounds limit on it for one transaction. For large items I pay cash. Like I did recently for my fridge. I don't see how cashless society is going to work for less well off.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Good point. Like I said above cashless society is going to cause people headaches.
I pay my Council tax ,rent and bills in cash at a paypoint. And I don't think that makes me that unusual. I avoid direct debits.
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Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Take your point if you mean big business fleeces the little shopkeeper.
Same with paying with card in small shop. I know a few who won't accept card below a certain amount.
Another thing about cashless society is that the big boys in financial sector realise they can cream off money with spurious transaction charges on using a card. Which the ordinary people pay. Its not fault of small shopkeeper.
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Gramsci
Well-Known Member
One of the best recent examples of the success of cashless society is bailing out the banks. Quantitative easing was handing the people who caused the crisis free money. It didn't seem like that as it was all done electronically.
The sight of wheelbarrows of money trundling down the City to save the bankers might have driven it home to people that they were being screwed.
So cashless society is great idea.
The sight of wheelbarrows of money trundling down the City to save the bankers might have driven it home to people that they were being screwed.
So cashless society is great idea.
lefteri
Well-Known Member
I thought this had been outlawed as almost all shops have stopped doing it
TruXta
tired
What led you to believe that the capitalism we live is free marketeer? One does not presume the other.
Yeah you are not allowed to do that
Credit and debit card charges banned from Saturday - what you need to know
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hiraethified
That's good to know. It was around Christmas, so just before the rip off charges were rightfully banned.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
TBH the price of a pint in there will have already excluded the poor way more effectively than a cards only policy will. You can see it having more impact when this sort of thing spreads elsewhere though so I think it's fair to be concerned.
Funny how this pub was largely seen as non-gentrifying when it opened.
Funny how this pub was largely seen as non-gentrifying when it opened.
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hiraethified
They seemed to change tack fairly rapidly after opening. Don't they have DJs there now too?TBH the price of a pint in there will have already excluded the poor way more effectively than a cards only policy will. You can see it having more impact when this sort of thing spreads elsewhere though so I think it's fair to be concerned.
Funny how this pub was largely seen as non-gentrifying when it opened.
cuppa tee
Well-Known Member
It's always been a bit exclusive but a big change happened when the side street was pedestrianised, and the the same owners opened the trendy Indian on the opposite corner, (I also have it on good authority they built the moderne house by the park entrance). In effect this changed the street into a private beer garden. The pub is a magnet for people with plenty of disposable in an area that still has social problems, the outside seating is a place where some people will sometimes come asking for loose change. Now if I am able I give change to such people, or if not at least try to treat them as human beings rather than inconveniences or worse. When the pub is cashless I reckon the flow of loose change will dry up and those people will decide to go elsewhere thereby solving another "problem" that may have caused the monied some distress....I reckon if it was legal to gate it they would...
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Totally agree, this pub that has decided to introduce this "Card" only policy is located in the Vassall Ward.
IIRC, the Vassall Ward is one of the most deprived wards in Lambeth. I use to rent a flat on the Cowley Estate off the Council many years ago. It's a 5 minute walk from this pub. The area was really deprived back then. I have been back to the area recently a few times to visit friends, although the area has changed a bit...it still has that deprived feel. I can't understand how a pub in this area or any area in Lambeth can introduce such as "Policy" like this.
jimbarkanoodle
Well-Known Member
went in here last night (not my idea), surly staff who gave off the distinct impression of being mightily inconvenienced at selling you an expensive pint. One of them kept following me to the toilet, presumably took one look at me and decided i was a coke head. Out of all the pubs in the area, this is probably my least favourite.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Sadly learned that Dave, the landlord of the Crown and Anchor in its pre-gentrification Conway Taverns iteration has died recently of cancer.
Dave was a fixture as a Beehive customer over the last ten years or so, though also liked to go to quiz nights at the Effra Social.
He was not what you'd expect from a white person who left school at 15 and went into the army - he was politically fairly neutral and seemed to have more black friends than white. A true Brixtonian really.
Dave was a fixture as a Beehive customer over the last ten years or so, though also liked to go to quiz nights at the Effra Social.
He was not what you'd expect from a white person who left school at 15 and went into the army - he was politically fairly neutral and seemed to have more black friends than white. A true Brixtonian really.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I think the owner has gone cashless in all of his pubs - I went to the Jolly Butchers in Stoke Newington last week, they are also now cashless. I think he has 5 pubs in his pub empire - (he also has Rose and Crown , Stoke Newington; Wrestler's Arms, Highgate; and The Brownswood Tavern nr Finsbury Park.The crown and anchor is somewhere I will use out of desperation rather than through choice
teatime today is one such occasion but I am disappointed to find said establishment will no longer accept cash in exchange for drinks, card only, according to sign in door "this the digital age"...
cuppa tee
Well-Known Member
I went past last might and the A4 printed notice has been replaced with "card only" in a swirly gold festive font.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
The end is nigh
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I went to this pub for the first time (that I can remember, anyway) on Sunday for lunch, having seen it getting a mention in an article about vegetarian Sunday roasts.
It was very busy and noisy, and we were lucky to get a seat at all.
I thought the food was great - two choices for vegetarians, both of which could be vegan. Basic, hearty roast dinner. Not fancy or gastropub-like. I really liked it.
Because there was table service, we left a tip. In cash. No idea how they coped with that.
It was very busy and noisy, and we were lucky to get a seat at all.
I thought the food was great - two choices for vegetarians, both of which could be vegan. Basic, hearty roast dinner. Not fancy or gastropub-like. I really liked it.
Because there was table service, we left a tip. In cash. No idea how they coped with that.
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hiraethified
That's like saying, "Fuck off" in a jaunty, happy tone.
T & P
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hiraethified
There's a man who puts the community first.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Nice to see they were beaten by The Freston Boot near Ipswich though (further down the page)
