Should shops be forced to accept cash?

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Many people around the country rely on cash, so we’re asking people around Newport whether shops should be legally required to accept cash as payment, or whether it’s up to the establishment themselves.

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00:00Oh yes I think they should. A lot of the older people always rely on cash. I mean

00:05I see my daughters when they're going into the bar and having one drink with a

00:11cat. If I haven't got cash in my pocket I won't go out. I always think if I haven't got cash in my pocket I'm broke.

00:18I think they're definitely pretty important, you know, especially for more rural parts of Wales.

00:24If we don't have a bank around them, you know, cash is more common. I think it will definitely

00:28need to be a necessity, especially if they come down to, you know, like from the

00:33valleys, they come down to Newport. It's definitely important for us to be able to accept cash.

00:37Yes, knock hard. And more shops around Newport.

00:41I think we should keep cash going. I always got cash on me.

00:45I think it's important, yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's annoying. I went into a hotel in the centre a few weeks ago

00:52and I took cash from me and I wasn't allowed to use cash at all.

00:57Yeah, no, I think we should keep cash, definitely.

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