In april last year the Coop in the town Kalmar in Kalmar livsmedelsjättens first cash deal in the country. The decision was taken after a majority of the robbery. Now it is clear that a similar business from the 20 may will be carried out in Sunderland city centre.
” We’ve been thinking about this decision for a long time. The store’s profile will be focused on speed and a lot of activity, ” says Joakim Pöyry.
Åhléns decision to give the cash shops a try, as the magazine Market reported. And in August last year was Ikea in Valbo, outside of Gävle, sweden the first Ikea store in the world to be kontantfritt.
Joakim Pöyry considers that there may be opportunities for more similar arrangement for the Coop to come.
– Now we get to test how well this works, and then we’ll see if it gets in the news, with more similar projects, ” he says.
He also tells us that Coop is looking at more alternative payment options in the future – for the moment, it is clear that the cash shop in Sunderland will have a cooperation with the payment service Samsung Pay.
on the Swedish Trading, believes that cash shops is something that companies should consider carefully.
” They weigh it at the guldvåg. You do not want to create badwill and lose customers who can’t pay with a card. But the main reasons expressed are the safety aspect and the question of cost, ” he says.
in Sweden today is made with a credit card, according to Bengt Nilervall. His assessment is that the cash within a couple of years will become increasingly marginal, but it may still be a while before the cashless society is a reality.
” In 2020, I believe that 90 per cent of all payments will be made with the card.
To cash payment in the society reduces the has been noted by, inter alia, analysis and communications agency Insight Intelligence, which annually examines this in the report ”Sweden pay”.
– It is about four-five years before the cash ends be used on a daily basis, ” said Niklas Arvidsson, a researcher at the royal institute of technology to DN.
Bengt Nilervall highlights that there are consequences with the cash progress.
– Back is that some groups – notably the elderly and the disabled, are in danger to be overlooked. We must ask ourselves the question: How should we take care of them and include them in their development?
