There used to be a few relatively large scale stored-value card systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-value_card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-va

There used to be a few relatively large scale stored-value card systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-value_card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-value_card) for general-purpose payments in the past.