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Australia is going along this path also. It's not quite as far as here, but ability to pay with card including contactless even for small transactions at small
by lathiat 9y ago
Australia is going along this path also. It's not quite as far as here, but ability to pay with card including contactless even for small transactions at smaller merchants is pretty common. Day to day I probably use cash about once a month on average.
- sitharus 9y agoCome to New Zealand, I haven't used cash this year. Everyone takes cards, though contactless isn't popular with merchants due to unregulated interchange fees.
- __alias 9y agoOnly reason I ever get cash out is to buy weed, honestly.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoThe only thing I use cash for here in New Zealand is the bus (I don't use it often enough to bother getting a card), and the farmers market, where half the stands actually take card anyway.
- beedogs 9y agoWe're also forcing all our welfare recipients onto a cashless card (with, of course, the forced drug testing that invariably comes along with it.) If you guessed that the party currently in control also has ties to the cashless card provider, you'd be right (but probably not surprised!) https://theaimn.com/lnp-welfare-card-true-facts-exposed-corruption-disguised-philanthropy/ https://theaimn.com/lnp-welfare-card-true-facts-exposed-corr... Australia is a very corrupt country, run by criminal opportunists.
- rmccue 9y agoDepends a bit on where you are, in my experience. In Melbourne I had a few instances where they didn't take card (so I went somewhere else), whereas I've not yet had that in Brisbane (I paid $1.50 at a coffee shop on card this morning). Probably the only place where I use cash now is Sunday markets, but even there, most places now take card. Interestingly, there's also a few places here which are either cash or contactless card only, including the cinema.