Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone

Re:Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone by hk__2 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:32AM (#30260479)

Can’t speak for other countries, but in France and Northern Italy this is the same: contactless cards everywhere. I live in France and --I have to check my banking app to check this because I don’t remember-- the last time I went to a cash machine was almost one year ago.

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Re:Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone by mrep on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @02:19PM (#30263147)

I'm in the US and the only time I can remember going to an ATM in the past 5 years is because farmers markets sometimes give you discounts > credit card rewards for cash and weed shops cannot use banks so you have to pay cash.

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Re:Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone by dzhiurgis on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @02:40PM (#30263464)

IMO farmers markets would disappear if they stopped using cash. It's basically synonym for tax avoidance sprinkled with some fraudulent claims how your honey cures everything.

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Re:Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone by mrep on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:08PM (#30263871)

I totally agree farmers markets are all about tax avoidance. They would charge me the flat dollar amount for cash but then add in the tax when I used a card. No way they are paying taxes on that cash transaction.

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Re:Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone by theshrike79 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @12:30PM (#30261430)

Ditto for Finland. Contactless cards or mobile phone payments work everywhere.

I haven't touched cash ever since covid hit, and very rarely before it.

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Re:Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone by SSLy on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:52AM (#30260828)

Same for Poland, and what I've heard, Sweden.

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