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Debit card payments rise but so does use of cash, BRC survey shows

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The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has published its BRC Payments Survey, showing a rise in the use of cash for the second year in a row to 19.9% of transactions in 2023 (from 18.8% in 2022). Debit cards, however, remained far and away the most…

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