cashless

The UK Treasury has said that 1p or 2p coins are not being scrapped, but with more people living cashless lives, there have been several years when no 2p coins were produced.

Its success has been based around new technology, but meant customers needed cashless payments to use its services.

Buying legal weed can still make you feel like a criminal: Depending on the dispensary, you may have to talk to a bouncer, get buzzed in, traverse a metal detector, or pay through a weird “cashless ATM” system or bank transfer.

Society's move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say - fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins.

A cashless society also raises concerns about privacy and surveillance.