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Chart of the Week: Week 23, 2017: Changes to Consumer Payment Methods

posted on June 15, 2017

The chart shows that cash remains the most popular method of payment in 2015, although following a sustained downward trend, 2015 represents the first year in which under half (45%) of all consumer payments were made using cash.

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