I live in a small town close to San Francisco. Went grocery shopping at a medium size grocery store (not a big name supermarket). While taking out money from the ATM, the cashier said: "Better get all you want, won't be here tomorrow". He told me that the ATM would be removed tomorrow. He also rattled off a few more names of grocery stores nearby that were removing their ATMS. I won't be surprised if they even remove them from banks to force people to stand in line and opt for digital currency.
No ATMS => Digital Currency => Social Credit Score =>
=> You've bought your ration of meat for the month. You can buy 5 pounds of bugs.
All the fake injections into the economy are going to rear its ugly side efect this year and hurt many businesses. Interest rates going up means less spending and banks raise fees to offset that, people using out of bank ATMs get dinged hard in fees. Also in the 'not a bank bail out bail out' the fund they are pulling from is funded from other solvent banks so their fees will be going up to offset that.
But mainly I think its businesses having to pay the bank for them to be in the store so its a cost cutting measure to remove them. Which dovetails in the main cost saving measure most places are using these days by giving a slight discount for cash purchase or adding an extra surcharge for credit cards purchases as the bank takes a now larger cut of that credit card sale because inflation monkies run the government.