{"id":105,"date":"2007-07-18T12:24:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T12:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/uncategorized\/sainsburys-to-stop-accepting-payment-by-cheque\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T12:24:01","slug":"sainsburys-to-stop-accepting-payment-by-cheque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/07\/18\/sainsburys-to-stop-accepting-payment-by-cheque\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainsbury&#8217;s to stop accepting payment by cheque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><!-- S BO --><!-- S IIMA -->Sainsbury&#8217;s is the latest big retailer to stop taking cheques, following the increasing popularity of paying using debit cards.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Starting from the 1st of August, its customers will no longer be able to use cheques to buy goods in the chain&#8217;s 800 stores. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The supermarket says few people now use cheques and argues that paying with them is too time-consuming. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Other firms in the UK have opted to phase out cheques including Asda, Morrisons, Boots, WH Smith and Shell. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF --><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">London Underground stopped taking them from tube travellers on 15 July. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">&#8220;Like other retailers they are being used less and less by our customers,&#8221; said a Sainsbury&#8217;s spokeswoman. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The number who still use them among its 17 million weekly customers was &#8220;very, very, small,&#8221; she added. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">However leaflets given to customers in Sainsbury&#8217;s stores say the main reason for the decision is the continued level of fraud involving cheques.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The retail group Argos will also stop taking cheques at the end of July. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!-- E BO --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sainsbury&#8217;s is the latest big retailer to stop taking cheques, following the increasing popularity of paying using debit cards.Starting from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}