We have a similar system here in Germany (established in 1996) [1]. Still up and running and widely in use! (i.e. 141,2 million EUR loaded onto cards, 118,4 mil

We have a similar system here in Germany (established in 1996) [1]. Still up and running and widely in use! (i.e. 141,2 million EUR loaded onto cards, 118,4 million EUR spent with the cards in 2013, see the German wikipedia page) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geldkarte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geldkarte