Re:In praise of cash
by ghaff on Friday March 03, 2017 @01:35PM
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In Japan, vending machines that take Pasmo and similar smart cards are pretty common. But Japan is pretty much an outlier AFAIK in its extremely widespread use of this type of technology.
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Not just in Japan, plenty of countries in Asia have offline stored-value cards that started out as train cards but can be used in many shops [commonly in convenience stores] as well (see Octopus in Hong Kong, ez-link in Singapore, EasyCard in Taiwan, Touch 'n Go in Malaysia, etc)