The warning lights for Britain’s small businesses are beginning to flash. Conflict in the Middle East is already pushing up fuel prices, threatening fertiliser supplies and setting off a chain reaction that could ripple from farms to restaurant tables and high streets. A single shipping route — the Strait of Hormuz — carries aContinue reading “Fuel, Fertiliser and Fear: Small Firms Brace for Price Storm”
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Now’s not the time to refuse to take cash: don’t give consumers a reason not to shop with you.
High Street shops are increasingly accepting only card or phone payments, taking security, costs and the way customers are behaving into account. This comes from research among small businesses by Link which runs the UK’s biggest cash machine network. About three quarters of the businesses asked still accept cash but of the other quarterContinue reading “Now’s not the time to refuse to take cash: don’t give consumers a reason not to shop with you.”