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Many companies refused to purchase cash payments one day of the lockdown, and contactless payments are mute most smartly-preferred
A bakery manager who paid for customers’ purchases with her maintain card in mutter that they would possibly spend cash has been sacked.
Megan Metcalfe, 60, talked about she did it to aid aged customers at Birds Bakery in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, the set she has labored for four decades.
She talked about she took about 45 payments totalling £183, but accepting cash became as soon as towards the bakery’s coronavirus policies.
Her extinct employer talked about this became as soon as why, “with remorse”, they’d to fire her.
Ms Metcalfe talked about the shop assign apart a “card payments handiest” glance in the window but many customers would acquire to the till and notify they handiest had cash.
‘Books were balanced’
As a substitute, she talked about, she would pay on their behalf and inquire of the consumer to set cash into her purse.
“Utilizing card is something that no longer all of us are old to attributable to they attach no longer need one or don’t ought to spend one,” she talked about.
“I’m no longer the blueprint of person to expose away an weak person or someone with special needs to trip away the shop empty-handed. So I began striking the payments on my card.
“I handiest did it with customers which were coming right here for about a years.
“This kind I became as soon as conserving money in the till, the customers were gay and the books were balanced.”
Since being sacked for deplorable misconduct in June, she is now working in a care dwelling.
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Birds Bakery is a excessive-avenue staple around the East Midlands
The GMB Union talked about it became as soon as “defective” Ms Metcalfe became as soon as fired for “helping aged of us engage bread”.
Age UK has furthermore beforehand raised considerations about a “headlong speed” to a cashless society.
But many companies, including Birds Bakery, were refusing to accept cash payments one day of the coronavirus disaster to limit contact.
CEO Lesley Bird talked about what Ms Metcalfe did broke each their Covid-19 tips and their firm regulations.
She added: “A host of our buyer nasty are the aged – a bunch of them inclined – and it is our accountability to retain them, and our group, stable.
“We wish her all of the most productive in the fresh role.”
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