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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by underwoodley on Friday November 10, 2017 @05:31AM (#15669028)
if 'cashless payment via touching a card' is what I think it is, it is completely widespread in London, in all shops/restaurants, and also on public transport.
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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by zimpenfish on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:59AM (#15670243)
> it is completely widespread in London, in all shops/restaurants

Probably needs "major" after "all" there. There's plenty of reasonably sized shops et al that haven't quite got around to contactless machines yet (Holland and Barrett, Ryman, etc.)

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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by sdrothrock on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:27AM (#15670046)
Ah, yeah. Oyster card? Same deal. I guess that just goes to show that Japan really isn't as "futuristic" as people would like to think. :)
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