On the Crate · Monday
I won’t bank on an app, and I shouldn’t have to
Forty-one years with the same bank. My "relationship manager" is now a chatbot that thinks I've forgotten my password. I haven't. I've forgotten why I'm still with them.
Branches cost money, and someone pays for them — probably you. So: keep them, or let them go?
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