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You and Yours: Super ATMs, Coupons, Renting

Super ATMs, Coupons, Renting

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Super ATMs, Coupons, Renting

Almost 6,000 banks have closed in the past 8 years, could the Super ATM be a replacement?

Around 6,000 banks have closed on UK high streets over the past eight years. Now there are trials for Super ATMs that offer people more services.

In the past 8 years almost 6,000 high street banks have closed on UK high streets, with close to 400 towns having lost their last remaining bank since 2022. We’ve reported on this, and the measures banks are doing to ease the move towards online banking, with services like mobile banking vans and banking hubs. 
Our reporter, Bob Walker, heads to Atherstone in Warwickshire to hear about the latest trail of the Super ATM. They will allow customers to deposit and withdraw funds, with the hope it’ll help business owners who are having to travel further to deposit takings. We’ll be speaking with small business owners about what they think of Super ATMs and if they will be using them. 

Coupons have changed since the days of finding them on the back of cereal packets and in the newspapers – Coca Cola claim to be the first company to use them back in the late 1880s.
They are becoming increasingly popular with many online communities sharing the latest deals and the best apps who distribute digital coupons. We’ll be hearing from coupon lovers and Holly Jay-Smith who goes by the name of the Coupon Queen.  

And are there signs that the rental market is starting to calm down now? According to new data from property portal, Zoopla, there was a 6.6% increase in the year to April – the slowest annual rise for over two and a half years. 
We’ll be hearing from two renters about their experiences, and to a property researcher to shine some light on what the market is doing.

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