First this is a little diarising that I did back on the 4th January in Melbourne.
Woolworths at corner of Lonsdale? and Queen? (ed. it is Queen but not Lonsdale) is trying its best to discourage cash customers. Out of about 14 automatic machines only one is dedicated to cash and it has a sign on it saying that it's not working. So you have to line up for tellers who have queues despite half the machines being empty. The guy before me was an angry bastard with a 7yo daughter in tow who was getting some flak from him. He paid cash but there were others there paying by card. One other woman paid cash and she only had $70 so there was a minute or two delay while she decided which groceries to dump.
When I finally got to the teller I told her that as Woolworths was doing its best to discourage cash customers that this was fine but I was never going to buy at any Woolworths ever again. She told me to complain to the State Manager as the local stores had no say in the policy. She was fine, fri…
