A supermarket cash machine in a Powys town left with no banks will not be reinstated after a raid earlier this year made it "unusable".
Co-op, which does not operate the ATMs at its stores, said a decision had been taken not to keep the cash machine at its Llanidloes store.
The supermarket added that a post office and two other free to use ATMs centrally located to the town "ensures the community maintains access to cash".
Dyfed-Powys Police said enquiries are ongoing into the break-in where shutter doors were damaged and around £90 in cash was taken during the early hours of May 3.
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However, with the search for cash machines getting harder in Llanidloes, the town council has proposed to contact the Chamber of Trade to collate a list of businesses in the area that offer cashback.
The town council discussed an action plan after receiving emails from residents about the provision of cash machines in Llanidloes.
Town councillor Trudy Davies, who runs Woosnam and Davies Newsagents, said: "When cash machines go down, we need to keep cash going in the community.
"I do cash back. Cllr Kelly [Hawkins] at the Red Lion Hotel does it. A few businesses in town do it but not a lot of people know about it. It also depends how much is in the till. The post office charges me to get cash out."
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Mayor Cllr Jamie Jones asked whether there were more ways to add more cash machines in the town and suggested having a banking hub such as in Welshpool.
"Any cash machine insurance is sky high once it's installed," Cllr Davies said.
"Most businesses won't entertain these things. They're also a target for crime like breaking and entering."
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Last year, county councillors Glyn Preston and Gareth Morgan started a campaign for a new Banking Hub where banks are represented one day a week for customers to access face-to-face banking in an area with no High Street banks.
The market town, like Welshpool, has no bank branches after Barclays left in 2017, following in the footsteps of NatWest and HSBC.
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