"I'm just very disappointed."
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That one simple sentence from long-time NAB customer Judy Newstead sums up the feelings of NAB's Blayney customers as their bank bolts the door permanently shut.
With the CBA to follow suit on June 4 Mrs Newstead finds the current banking situation in Blayney as very sad.
"What's the world coming to when it's all push-button this and app that," she said outside the bank only an hour before it officially closed.
"I've been with them for 67 years and joined when I was 15.
"I've learnt a bit about what to do but my husband Al, he doesn't even know how to turn on a computer.
"I really feel for any older people that live by themselves."
Heather Cox was also fronting up to the recently installed Perspex screens to do her last bank in the branch, and like Mrs Newstead, her feelings were quickly revealed.
"I'm upset because I don't like having to learn new things so I've just been in there to make sure that I'll be getting all my statements in the mail so that I can check them," she said.
Like Mrs Newstead, Mrs Cox has the NAB banking app on the phone and has her utility payments automated, but still finds it hard to use.
"What do I do if I get a bill for a repair or something like that? I used to come in here, get the cash out and go pay it. I don't know how to use the app to pay bills, I don't trust it."
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What both of the last customers to use the branch will miss are the staff that would greet them whenever they went in.
"They were always very friendly and greeted us with a smile and there was nothing to big or small that they wouldn't do," Mrs Cox said.
As for their future plans they'll both be staying with NAB, but Mrs Cox has some sage advice for anyone wishing to avoid banks altogether.
"Go buy a safe, but all your money in there and let the banks rot!" she said.
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