Aarle-Rixtel is not the only place where the ATM has recently disappeared. Many other Brabant villages have been struggling with the same problem for a while. Residents of Liempde, Sint Oedenrode, Hilvarenbeek, Mierlo and Lieshout for example. They have not been able to withdraw money from a vending machine for some time, they say to Omroep Brabant.
And that also applies to Ingrid from Liempde. The inhabitants of the village had an ATM in the Medical Center until last year. But when there was suddenly one in the local supermarket, Ingrid feared the worst. “We thought then: the ATM is also leaving here, even though the municipality assured us the opposite.” Now, a year later they can no longer pin in Liempde in the evening or at night.
“And people are not happy with that, because now you have to do with the times of the supermarket,” says Ingrid. “It is again one of the facilities that falls away. You can no longer spontaneously pin in the village. You now have to go to Sint Oedenrode.”
But there they have the same problem. The ATM was recently removed, Dianne also knows. Although it is not so bothered by it. “But the elderly in the village do,” she thinks. “And even if it is a fair, then you have to be on time. Because in the evening, after eight when the Albert Heijn closes, you can no longer pin.”
Disappears
Because there is less and less cash, the use of ATMs is decreasing. A large number of ATMs has been removed or moved.
The first yellow money size Pinomatic was unveiled in 2019. The ATMs from ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank were then replaced.
Frans from 71 also sees the ATMs in Tilburg West. “Until the beginning of this year I was able to go to a money size in the Albert Heijn, near me at De Moorplein,” he says. “But that is now gone, just like the machine to charge your public transport chip card.” Before one, French now has to go to the Westermarkt, a little further. And for the other to the station. “Fortunately, that is not that far, but I do get the feeling that there are fewer and fewer money sizes.”
And that is annoying for Frans, because he still uses cash regularly. “To deal with the baker or to give it to the church. If I were living in a small village, it would be a problem for me,” he concludes.
