Select Starbucks Locations In The U.K. Will Now Become Cashless In October

This move seems to follow the current pace of British consumers, with an increasing number nearly using cashless payments exclusively: “UK Going Cashless As Over A Third Of Brits Abandon Physical Tender For Contactless Payments.”

According to a menu board sign outside of a Starbucks on Rooley Lane in Bradford, U.K., the sign reads:

We’re going cashless. From 1st October 2022 we will only be accepting card, contactless and Starbucks awards payments. Please ask our team for further details.

Once news of this spread, many took to social media to protest and boycott, with “#BoycottStarbucks” trending on Twitter, with many believing that the franchise as a whole would be going cashless.

The U.K. division for Starbucks took to social media on August 30th to dispel some of the rumors:

Starbucks has no plans to go cashless across our UK stores. We operate alongside various licensee business partners in the UK, so this may vary from store to store and the majority of our stores continue to offer cash payment options.

The company said in a statement on social media

Starbucks has no plans to go cashless across our UK stores. We operate alongside various licensee business partners in the UK, so this may vary from store to store and the majority of our stores continue to offer cash payment options.

— Starbucks UK (@StarbucksUK) August 30, 2022

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The previous day Starbucks Care also responded to a tweet posting a picture of the cashless sign, explicitly stating they are not going cashless as a whole:

Hello, In the U.S. and Canada we have made no announcement of going cashless. Starbucks accepts cash. You may see details at.

Hello, In the U.S. and Canada we have made no announcement of going cashless. Starbucks accepts cash. You may see details at https://t.co/d4Oae1PhKv

— Starbucks Care (@StarbucksCare) August 29, 2022

Many fact-checkers have been quick to refute the many claims on social media that Starbucks is going completely cashless, such as Snopes and PolitiFact.

Be that is it may, The WinePress has noted that Starbucks has very much been inching their franchise closer and closer to more digital payments:

The WP also noted in 2020 that Starbucks explained how they were using their proprietary AI called “Deep Brew,” to study the purchases, habits, quality of their customers and how to improve sales.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Revelation 13:16-18

Though it is not everywhere right now, there is no doubt that Starbucks will eventually become cashless as a whole, just like every other major brand or store, driving us closer to the mark of the beast.

Disregard the “prophecy watchers” who have conflated and maligned this story. Recently Geoffrey Grider of “Now The End Begins” ran a report talking about the cashless payments at Starbucks, the same day these pictures in the U.K. began to circulate. But Grider made no mention of this fact that it is only in limited locations in the U.K., but made it seem like all Starbucks stores would be going cashless. Moreover, adding insult to injury, he then cites an article by Inc that was written in May of 2020, where the company said they would expand the cashless systems because of Covid, not an outright cashless mandate. Even the article he cited ever says they were going cashless. But Grider does not tell his readers that, and makes this seem like this was recent. That’s the type of “news” you get from him.

Understand that I did not write this article because of Grider, but I kept seeing this Starbucks thing pop-up online, so I decided to investigate further. Nevertheless, regulars know that I am quite critical of Grider, solely because he professes to believe similarly to myself and others, but it is obvious after a careful examination of him that he is a grade-A liar and grifter.

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The bottom line is simple, and that is, Starbucks is not completely going cashless right now, but they will eventually.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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