the Restaurant did not use cash.
sports restaurant O’Learys newly-opened shopping centre Triplassa wanted to try something new. It left the cash out completely. Pay can card and maybe in the future mobile payment.
let’s Ask from customers.
lunch time is about to begin and the restaurant fills up quickly in the yellow jacket of a construction worker from. Customers card payment does not seem to mind.
Helsinki Omar Mekhane not even initially noticed that the restaurant use only card.
– this doesn’t bother me. Self-pay usually mobile payment, not even on the card anymore so much, say the early twenties of the Mekhane.
Even if the card and mobile payment will become more common fast, about ten per cent of finns continues to pay only in cash. The monetary authority of scared now, that these finns find themselves unequal to the position, if the banknotes and coins can not in the future no longer pay for your purchases.
One customer is turned off, all the others have been ok with this.
Jone Salmela, restaurant manager, O’Learys
the O’Learys has been open now for a month. Restaurant manager Jone Salmela according to the experience of the payment in cash of the abandonment has been good.
the waiter of the work is accelerated, when no longer need to count change. Costs are lower, when the company does not pay the bank in cash deposit or a security firm to pick up the money for. Even a safe is no longer needed.
Also, the other side of the counter payment in cash, security is taken in good spirits against – at least as a rule.
One of my clients has turned out, all the others have been ok with this. Part of a not like you a little, says Salmela.
cash free of charge boutiques still have a little
the O’learys in addition to Triplassa also have a few other cafe, which has given up the cash. Around the clock in an open K-store can not be paid in cash, during the night, for safety reasons.
Cash completely abandon the products of shops and restaurants in Finland have only a handful of, let’s tell the Trade federation, as well as the tourism and restaurant sector representative Mara.
the Fall opened the Lappeenranta student on campus the first cash payment of the grocery store. Otherwise, the three biggest retail chain does not have a planned new ring free of charge shops.
Mara executive vice president of Veli-Matti Aittoniemi , according to the federation have no the official position of the cash use, but he sees the card and mobile payment become more common in the good side.
– Cash handling is now a corporate inconvenient and expensive, when bank services are contracted. The grey economy is reduced, when the card and mobile payment I always leave a trail, says Aittoniemi.
pioneerimaa in Sweden and Norway compared to Finland comes slightly behind. Sweden has even declared a goal to get to one day completely get rid of the cash.
the basic service you should get cash
Should banknotes and coins let us be rid of? The Bank of finland according to the no.
Only cash using people is around ten per cent of finns and the number dwindles steadily, said system of payment of the corresponding head of department Päivi Heikkinen the bank of Finland.
Who are they? Elderly people, migrants, payment problems, data protection their accurate as well as children. Part of it may be physical features or learning difficulties, which is why digital payment is not successful.
Finland there are people who are in need of cash. Therefore, it is important that cash can purchase services and products. Especially when there is a question of everyday life important things, said Heikkinen.
Heikkinen does not see it problematic, that in the big mall in Helsinki a few restaurants to give up a cash payment. Near you will certainly find places to eat, with cash.
but what if the location of the only drugstore or grocery store would stop the cash desk? Heikkinen, it would put the population in an unequal position. Then the Bank of Finland would be forced to intervene.
in Such a situation, we would have time to seriously think about whether this action, said Heikkinen.
head of Department Päivi Heikkinen bank of Finland recalls that children learn to study as more accountable for the money users cash with the help of. Card money wear is an adult, I more difficult to perceive than the purse in the existing banknotes and coins.Markku Pitkänen / Yle
Even in the electronic payment model in Sweden is the rise of a small-scale revolt against the use of cash for, write to the BBC (you move to another service). Now next door to consider whether the banks oblige the cash receipt and the to provide (you move to another service) (Sveriges Riksbank).
in Norway and Denmark, legislation obliges to take cash payments. In finland this is not so, but the customer must be told clearly accepted payment instruments.
Finland is not even needed to take a regulatory position to cash. If the side-effects of the birth, we should be ready to respond, said Heikkinen.
Heikkinen remind you that cash is the only viable payment instrument, if the data network crashes throughout the country.
even Though the lunch break of a construction worker Omar Mekhane has taken a liking to mobile payments, he would give up entirely in cash.
– Older people still use cash. Is it good that cash is still a payment option, even if its use will certainly be reduced, Mekhane consider.
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