Re:Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
by hakfoo on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @10:19PM
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Exactly like in the US except that the target market here isn't the privacy-conscious, it's the people banks don't want to service (poor and/or poor credit history)
If you have the means to tally an order and a card terminal, though, you could have a kiosk with a note acceptor attached.
Re:Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
by ciceryadam on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:07AM
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>There kind of isn't, at least in Sweden. The option that does exist is a seedy borderline scam with exorbitant overhead and hidden usury fees, which will effectively confiscate your remaining money a few months in.
You can have a non-swedish Revolut/N26/Bunq/Curve account, and use that card instead, that way you are not directly linked to your cashless purchases.
There kind of isn't, at least in Sweden. The option that does exist is a seedy borderline scam with exorbitant overhead and hidden usury fees, which will effectively confiscate your remaining money a few months in.
Also, in stark contrast to real cash, it still results in a log of all the transactions and ties them up to one weakly pseudonymous identity which will be re-identified at one single purchase with an identifiable connection, or could by from a collection of weaker clues. That is, for instance, goodbye to ever using it for anything with an account, unless you also want to announce you probably bought everything else the card was ever used for.
It's cheaper to dump toxic waste in the bay than to have someone neutralize it as well, and personally I'm positively delighted the resulting products cost more instead. There are lots discounts that should be shunned, and in my opinion this one is a prime example.