howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Will be upon as sooner rather than later and we will be paying for things by phone rather than debit/credit cards which should be fun as I haven't a clue how to do it. Another issue is what happens when the battery goes flat unexpectedly because of the extra phone use.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/04/uk-switch-to-cashless-society-contactless-paymenthoward mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
Maybe there's still a faint hope that cash will fight back, and that libertarians everywhere will reject surveillance by card and app:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49652026'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
"But this week, Sainsbury's said in a blogpost: "It's clear that not all our customers are ready for a totally till-free store."
The people behind this daft idea obviously did not take into account not everyone is a technology fan, plus I bet their customer base declined except for the shoplifters. I for one would not use such a shop I like talking to the cashiers plus they sometimes pack for me.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,102
Having listened to the TUC conference today I'm afraid it all looks rather inevitable.
This is what a wage demand for £10 an hour looks like when your 'skills' are only worth £7 an hour.
THIS is the future - and it's not going to stop just for you:-
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/10/20857921/amazon-go-rollout-delay-cashierless-convenience-stores-whole-foods"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
blame it on mimimum wage capt
so wrong
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,102
No. Blame it on minimum transferable skills in spite of years of 'free' education.
Pablo likes this
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,102
No. Blame it on minimum transferable skills in spite of years of 'free' education.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
