ATM handles since the turn of the year itself the cash deliveries to its machines. The transition has, however, been problem-filled.
The company's system for counting the banknotes does not work as it should, which has resulted in unusually many ATMs being out of order in recent months.
This has led to food stores being emptied of cash instead, reports P4 Stockholm. The pressure has, according to P4, become so great that some stores have begun to limit the opportunities to withdraw money.
According to, for example, ICA, the cash withdrawals in the stores - that is, withdrawals without the customer buying anything - increased by about 20 percent in June compared to May.
"Not acceptable"
Johan Nilsson, marketing manager at Bankomat, confirms that the company still has major problems.
We have about a quarter of our machines standing still. Either because we have not had time to go out and refill with banknotes or because we have not had time to go out and repair them, he says to TT.
It's about approximately 300 of our total of about 1,200 machines at present.
The spring's problems - which are expected to continue over at least the whole summer - are a major failure, the company admits.
It's clearly and obviously on the right track now. But we still have examples of machines that have been standing still for over 20 days. It's not acceptable at all, says Johan Nilsson.
"Doing too little"
Both the Central Bank and the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS), which has the supervisory responsibility, have an ongoing dialogue with Bankomat about the problems.
According to Björn Eriksson, formerly among other things national police chief, it is not enough. Kontantupproret therefore recently reported PTS to the Parliamentary Ombudsman.
There is neither supervision nor sanctions that work. This puts people in a bloody squeeze, but it's actually nobody who steps forward and says "now we'll solve this".
