Cashpoints

It's not long now until Hay Festival, and there have already been problems surrounding the use of the cashpoint at the Post Office, which often has queues and seems to break down fairly regularly.
The Chamber of Commerce is having their AGM on Thursday 25th April at 6pm at the Registry Office in the Council Chambers, and this is one of the subjects they will be discussing.
They have little power to change matters, but they have issued a one-page information sheet to local businesses, basically suggesting that they encourage customers to use their credit cards more, and maybe offer cash-back, as some businesses in Hay already do. They also suggest that businesses might like to look into the idea of hosting a cashpoint themselves, though I doubt that there would be time before the Festival for anyone to organise that.

Meanwhile, on the Hay-on-Wye Community Page on Facebook this morning, there's a post saying that the Co-op has been ram raided!
The Co-op also had a small cashpoint in the foyer - which has disappeared. According to one person on the Facebook discussion, though, it was probably empty at the time. The Co-op is hoping to be open later this morning.