Maureen O'Sullivan Davidson ("What ditching cash could cost us", Letters, 25/3) is spot on. Cash is legal tender and can only be refused if purchasers are informed before a sale that cash is not acceptable.
Major retailers do whatever they can to steer customers away from cash, with cashless self-serve registers and minimal manned registers. Retailers who refuse to accept cash might have trolleys full of goods abandoned at the registers. Retailers risk the alienating of a large section of their customer base, because the retired community has used cash for a lifetime. If society becomes cashless it will end shops who only accept cash, raffles, donations to charity, rides in fun parks, buskers, even sausage sandwiches.
