I previously lived in the Netherlands and had some experience of the squeeze on cash. Back in 2012 Dutch supermarkets got together and decided they would eliminate cash transactions from their business by 2014. Their ostensible reason for this (stopping robberies) was laughable.
I watched them implement various measures to try and force this, the most obvious of which was to slowly decrease the amount of tills which would accept cash. It was quite possible to be stood in a queue of eight people waiting to pay for shopping whilst two card only tills waited for customers.
When newly setup retail businesses started to implement the refusal to take any cash as part of their business plan it became clear to more people that something bigger was going on.
They tried to fast and too big. Gradualism/incrementalism, as I mentioned in my previous post today on human gene-editing, is the a key methodology used in social engineering. Good on people to notice the change. They need to tell the story for generations so as to no get duped later on ;) hehe. Thanks for the feed back!
No probs. If you're interested The Netherlands is often used as a test market for innovation. In consumer banking they seem to get everything first.
Here in New Zealand it's a bit like that too. When eftpost came on the seen we were one of the first country's to rapidly incorporate it into the monetary system