Cash use slips to just 15% of British purchases in 2021

BRITISH shoppers used cash in only 15 per cent of transactions in 2021, half the level of the year before and down from nearly 40 per cent before the Covid-19 pandemic, retailers said on Friday.
The British Retail Consortium said government advice to go contactless during the pandemic, as well as a surge in online shopping, had accelerated an existing shift away from cash.