Consumer Corner: Is cash doomed to die out?

There’s so many places we can now use our cards or phones to pay for items that we can often forget to carry cash - however, for many, cash remains vital to what they do.

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You know the frustration of pulling into the car park of your local supermarket and realising you have no euro coin for the trolley. 

Then there’s the person collecting money at the door of the store for a charity you would like to support but you have no cash either in your pocket for that.