howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
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
#2
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#3
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: 13,931
#4
"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: 8,397
#5
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#6
blame it on mimimum wage capt
so wrong
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#7
No. Blame it on minimum transferable skills in spite of years of 'free' education.
Pablo likes this
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#8
No. Blame it on minimum transferable skills in spite of years of 'free' education.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
