Local residents and customers of the Metcalfe branch of the Royal Bank of Canada rallied Monday to keep their bank open.
RBC plans to close the branch in mid-October. Residents, customers, and politicians gathered Monday afternoon across the street signing and delivering letters, asking to keep their local branch open.
“For us, it’s just important to teach our kids about financial literacy, and having the bank right in our community makes that possible,” said customer Natalie Elliot. “We stop at the bank all the time when we’re going to the farmers’ market, the Metcalfe fair, the variety store for ice cream—we like to support the local bank, and the local businesses, and without it here, it’s going to make that challenging for us.
RBC says "a couple of factors" led to the decision to close the Metcalfe branch, including fewer clients coming into branches, more people choosing to do their banking online or at the ATM, clients tending to do their banking at more than one location, and more options available to meet with an advisor.
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