Times letters: Resisting moves towards the cashless society

Sir, It is an understandable stance from those of a metrocentric viewpoint that cash will “die”, but it ignores rural reality in the UK (“Crisis accelerates march towards cashless society”, News, “Going Cashless”, leading article, May 30). I and many others I know operate micro-businesses for the benefit of our local community in Cornwall that are totally dependent on cash and probably always will be. The seasonal café in my village, for example, operates from premises that have no telephone connection and no wireless broadband. How then are they supposed to conduct cashless transactions? Equally, we have farm-gate shops, unattended flower stalls and, in my case, an unattended bread stall, all of which are highly valued by their customers. I very