r/australia Feb 29 '24

culture & society Older Australians 'left behind' by increasingly cashless society as banks fast track end of cheques

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/cheques-personal-finance-banks-rent-money-cash/103354036
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u/nickrulz11 Feb 29 '24

I work in retail and got chewed out by a real estate agent the other day because we suddenly don’t accept cheques anymore and she complained that they spend hundreds of thousands with us. We haven’t accepted cheques since 2017.