{"id":87408,"date":"2026-04-05T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87408"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:02:50","slug":"major-high-street-bank-reopening-branches-in-u-turn-after-shutting-800-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/05\/major-high-street-bank-reopening-branches-in-u-turn-after-shutting-800-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Major high street bank reopening branches in U-turn after shutting 800 locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZiR9n.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Close-up of hand inserting debit card into automated an ATM machine. Cash withdrawing, paying bills, checking account balance, transferring money, currency exchange at ATM. Self-service concept.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing more frustrating than getting stuck with a chatbot when trying to sort your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/money\/savings-banks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">online banking<\/a> queries.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/major-high-street-bank-reopening-branches-in-u-turn-after-shutting-800-locations\/ar-AA20ck9d?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69d28a313df14ca09c028e4c805887bf&amp;ei=99\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>There&#8217;s nothing more frustrating than getting stuck with a chatbot when trying to sort your\u00a0online banking queries. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Barclays-Bank.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87409,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87408\/revisions\/87409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}