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Wow, that took me back. I don't remember seeing anyone swiping their card in recent years, even chipcards are becoming more and more uncommon - contact-less p
by ithinkso 10y ago
Wow, that took me back. I don't remember seeing anyone swiping their card in recent years, even chipcards are becoming more and more uncommon - contact-less payment leads the way now.
- vinceguidry 10y agoWhere do you live?
- JshWright 10y agoOutside the United States.
- vinceguidry 10y agoThat was easy enough to infer, what wasn't was where in the world contact-less payment systems came to dominate. Even in Europe chip appears to be the norm. China? Japan?
- umeshunni 10y agoIn UK and AU, contactless payments dominate, particularly for low value transactions. I suspect that's the case in Japan too. China has a mishmash of system from in-app payments (a la WeChat) to QR-code based systems.
- ithinkso 10y agoPoland. In one of the top5 cities here but nevertheless, even if I'm visiting much smaller ones it's hard to find a place where you cannot pay in a contactless fashion. This PayPass, or whatever is called, technology really took off here in the last 5 years.