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I ran into this in California at a small farm along Highway 1 a few miles north of Santa Cruz. It's a scenic ocean side rural locale but near all the big Bay Ar

I ran into this in California at a small farm along Highway 1 a few miles north of Santa Cruz. It's a scenic ocean side rural locale but near all the big Bay Area cities and frequented by day visitors from there. There was a shack with a good variety of their produce laid out, with price labels. Up front there was a cash box, with about $40 already in it, and a sign that said pay here. This was late '90s. I really hope that it continued to work for them for a long time after that. I haven't seen that elsewhere before or since. I overpaid as a tip. I hope that happens enough to offset cheats.

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SomeOldThrow 7y ago
You can still see this in rural new england, at least, though I expect with far less non-local traffic than california 1.
dang 7y ago
I've seen them in the town of Sonoma as recently as last season.
davidjnelson 7y ago
There’s one in Soquel ( next to Santa Cruz ) I visited last year. Really neat feel to it.
gmac 7y ago
In rural south west England, on holiday last year, the well-stocked local farm shop operated not only an honesty box, but an honesty credit card machine, with detailed instructions how to put a transaction through. The merchant receipt went in the honesty box, of course. I was astonished but pretty pleased, because I was low on cash and far from any ATM.
- Symbiote 7y ago
  PayM would be the easy implementation of this, it's the generic mobile phone based bank transfer system for the UK. In Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland the same shop would have a phone number. You type the phone number into the app (which shows the name as confirmation), the amount, and press send. It's not tied to any particular bank. Unfortunately, the UK system isn't really catching on. Instead, my friends seem to be using proprietary apps which only work for friends at the same bank.
stevenwoo 7y ago
I've been here since the late 90's and the same self service stands that were here then are still here - there are several between Palo Alto and Cupertino. There's also a self service rest stop mainly for cyclists that's been in operation for the last 10 years or so, between Woodside and Half Moon Bay. https://potreronuevofarm.org/bike-hut/ https://potreronuevofarm.org/bike-hut/

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SomeOldThrow 7y ago

You can still see this in rural new england, at least, though I expect with far less non-local traffic than california 1.

dang 7y ago

I've seen them in the town of Sonoma as recently as last season.

davidjnelson 7y ago

There’s one in Soquel ( next to Santa Cruz ) I visited last year. Really neat feel to it.

gmac 7y ago

In rural south west England, on holiday last year, the well-stocked local farm shop operated not only an honesty box, but an honesty credit card machine, with detailed instructions how to put a transaction through. The merchant receipt went in the honesty box, of course. I was astonished but pretty pleased, because I was low on cash and far from any ATM.

Symbiote 7y ago
PayM would be the easy implementation of this, it's the generic mobile phone based bank transfer system for the UK. In Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland the same shop would have a phone number. You type the phone number into the app (which shows the name as confirmation), the amount, and press send. It's not tied to any particular bank. Unfortunately, the UK system isn't really catching on. Instead, my friends seem to be using proprietary apps which only work for friends at the same bank.

stevenwoo 7y ago

I've been here since the late 90's and the same self service stands that were here then are still here - there are several between Palo Alto and Cupertino. There's also a self service rest stop mainly for cyclists that's been in operation for the last 10 years or so, between Woodside and Half Moon Bay. https://potreronuevofarm.org/bike-hut/ https://potreronuevofarm.org/bike-hut/