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Even more ATMs to vanish.
CASHLESS 7-ELEVEN
7-Eleven has confirmed it will start to wind back the number of ATMs in stores across the country, as Australia transitions further towards a cashless society.
A 7-Eleven spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday that the company is ‘reducing their ATM footprint’ in the 762 they have nationally throughout Australia.
“As our offer evolves, some ranges and services are removed to provide room for new and high demand offers.” the spokesperson said.
‘We are reducing our ATM footprint to respond to changing customer needs…”
The announcement comes after some frustrated Aussies took to social media complaining that it’s getting harder to find cash machines at the convenience chain.
In recent years, the retailer has been trialling cash-free stores in Melbourne and Brisbane.
The concept prioritises mobile checkout, with customers paying for their goods via a smartphone app.
The move is yet the latest in a string by banks and companies to ‘move with the times’ and remove cash, as Australia pushes forward towards a cashless society.
In July, it was announced that cash is no longer available over the counter at a number of Commonwealth Bank locations, with Specialist Centres to focus on “more complex banking needs”.
Soon after, Macquarie Bank announced it will join the cashless trend, with new policies from the group forecast to begin removing cash and cheque options as soon as next year.
Australians are already finding it tough to get a hold of cash in the first place, let alone places to pay with it, with thousands of bank branches and ATMs disappearing over the last half a decade.
The sheeple go along with the ‘convenience’ PR campaign, but there still is time to fight back.
KEEP CASH ALIVE
The sleeping masses are largely the ones pushing this new payment reality into existence.
A Reserve Bank report released last month showed 73 per cent of transactions under $10 in 2022 were done with a card, compared with little more than half in 2019.
During the last financial year, 718 automatic teller machines were removed, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data showed.
This occurred as 424 bank branches closed in the year to June.
The number of branches has plunged by more than a third or 37 per cent since June 2017, but in six years, the number of ATMs has plummeted by 59 per cent.
The number of bank branches has fallen to 3,588, down from 5,694.
Australia has 5,693 ATMs still in existence – less than half the 13,814 level of June 2017.
Indeed, it is looking grim, but there are still a few factors that keep us alive at this point.
The first one being older generations. As long as old people are around, as case studies across the world have shown, they will always have to keep some form of cash system operational.. for the meantime.
Also, like Zimbabwe, if a cashless system is introduced without the full acceptance of the people, the data shows a ‘blood money’ illegal black market will pop up as a parallel economy.
The other factor, like we are seeing in the U.K, is a people-powered resurgence of cash.
In Britain, the use of cash has increased for the first time in a decade, as households look to balance their budgets amid the cost of living squeeze.
They constantly say that ‘the market’ (aka people) is what drives these decisions, so in turn, the marketplace can also push things in the opposite direction if people wake up to themselves.
We have seen supermarket chains in the northern regions of the U.K listen to consumer feedback when making a recent decision to remove self-serve checkouts, so it is certainly possible.
So, to 7-Eleven and all of the other cashless lapdogs, we can take inspiration from this classic video below and tell them all where they can take their business if they want to act like this.
People-power is always the best form of resistance against the corporate consumer market.
Vote with your pockets and cross 7-Eleven off your lists!
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Just avoid these companies, support small business, get your petrol from elsewhere, keep using cash. Check out articles about why we need to keep cash alive. They want to bring in CBCD’s very soon.
none exist in Adelaide that am aware of for 7-11 stores, Small Business can not cope with the cost of living its been planned that way that’s why many are selling up or try too. Petrol is controlled by big franchises like xconvenience and OTR as more and more of them open up. First will be the Digital IDs once that’s rolled out then its game over for Australia. CBDC, Social Credit Score and 15 min cities true open air prisons controlled by 5G be no escaping then. Then you add Carbon Zero which trees need to release oxygen for us to breathe.
Yep pretty grim future, unless we fight it best we can. There is some great articles about these topics on: thelightaustralia.com you can read or download their free newspaper.