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Branch banks, and physical banking locations in general.
They haven’t disappeared entirely, and it’s unlikely they will in my lifetime, but there are many more closing than opening.
Today, for the first time in a long time, I had reason to stop in at a branch bank. There was one teller at a facility that would accommodate at least 10. And not a soul at any of the dozen or so desks in the low cubicles on the other side of the building.
This. I recently had reason to go into the local branch office of "my" bank at a time of day that I would expect to have normally stood in line for a while as the other customers were assisted. However, I was one of only two customers, and bank personnel were scarce; a single Teller finally appeared from a back room to assist me. I'm not so sure there will be a return to what we remember as "normal" after all of this pandemic precautions.