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The couple additionally doesn’t use ATM machines as they consider they are often subjected to fraud.
Peter Wisby and his spouse don’t even personal a smartphone and simply have one fundamental mobile phone between them.
The world’s tenth largest financial institution, Barclays, is having to shut down one in every of its branches in London for a really peculiar motive. The financial institution authorities realised that they have been catering to only one buyer for some time. The Barclays financial institution department at Tower Bridge Street in Bermondsey, south London has only one devoted buyer, 84-year-old Peter Wisby and therefore it’s closing down. This has put Mr Wisby in a repair as a result of the octogenarian doesn’t use on-line banking and nonetheless depends upon the normal methods of visiting the financial institution for all banking actions.
Peter Wisby and his spouse don’t even personal a smartphone and simply have one fundamental mobile phone between them. Making and receiving calls and texting by way of SMS is just about all they use their telephone for. Visby, who misplaced his leg in a street accident in 2003, has by no means used the web and refuses to be a slave to know-how. His grandkids, who acquired him the cellular phone, have provided to show him on-line banking now that his nearest department is shutting down, however his reply is ‘No method’. The couple additionally doesn’t use ATM machines as they consider they are often subjected to fraud.
Wisby doesn’t even consider it when the financial institution says he’s their solely buyer and says that they’re mendacity. “They solely unfold a bunch of lies. Individuals aren’t utilizing banks, they declare, however that’s as a result of they consistently put boundaries of their path. Over the previous 12 months, they’ve purposefully closed the tills, solely to reluctantly reopen them after I make a scene,” he was quoted as saying by The Metro.
The couple already needed to financial institution additional away from dwelling when the Southwark Park Street Barclays closed a couple of years in the past. Wisby’s spouse Eileen says that it could not be potential for both of them to go to the subsequent closest department each week. “They talked about within the letter the subsequent closest ones have been in Borough Excessive Road or Fenchurch Road and it is going to be tough for us to journey to both each week,” she mentioned.
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