Supermarkets "no longer want your cash."

Further to my last post regarding the coming cashless society that will pave the pay toward the mark of the beast system that will come to pass in the near future (Revelation 13:16-18), I read on tonight's BBC news under the headline "Coronavirus: Supermarkets limit shoppers as rules tighten" 24th March 2020 (bbc.co.uk/news/business-52022240) :

"They also no longer want your cash. Instead supermarkets are trying to encourage shoppers to pay by contactless card to cut down on potentially virus-covered cash being passed around the population." (My emphasis).

I can't be dogmatic about the figures, but is it a stretch to believe that collectively, the major supermarkets combined constitute something in the order of 90% of all money (cash and card transactions) that is spent on food products in the UK and other western nations? Considering their collective clout, does not a statement like this give the European governments, and elsewhere, much fuel to go completely cashless?

I never thought (in my unregenerate life at least!) that I would see the day that business would think cash to be undesirable-but such are the days we are living in-the end times!

It is important to realise that the mark of the beast system, when it is foisted upon the world (Revelation 13:16-17) will take place at the time of Antichrist during the last three and a half years of this age. Until that time certain prophetic events must come to pass, most notably the literal rebuilt city of Babylon, so that it can be literally destroyed as depicted in Revelation 18. I believe this city will rise (we may say literally overnight!) within the next ten years, rebuilt on its old foundations. It is said of this city that "they left off to build the city." Genesis 11:8, for God did "scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." Genesis 11:9. The world will come together to build this "great city" where it will be said of her "what city is like unto this great city?" Revelation 18:18 (RV). Babylon is not Rome!

This know also, that in the last days perilous (grievous RV) times shall come. 2 Timothy 3:1.