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byPowercntrl ( 458442 ) writes:
Is there really any reason we can't just make pennies out of plastic instead? Personally, I haven't used cash in ages anyway so I'm really neither here nor there on running out of pennies, but it seems like if the problem is just that they cost too much to manufacture, make them out of something cheaper.
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
Or just scrap them as a denomination. I'm in the UK where pennies are worth fractionally more. It is now worth considerably less in real terms than the 1/2 p coin when that was scrapped. I, personally in favour of scrapping copper coinage completely. Round the tally to the closest 5 and be done with it.
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
I don't even regularly carry cash anymore. Phone generates a random credit card number for anonymity when shopping, that's good enough.
byViol8 ( 599362 ) writes:
"Phone generates a random credit card number for anonymity when shopping"
Huh? How can you pay with some random card number? And no payment method is anonymous , you simply move who knows from the shop to apple/google and your bank still knows you spent money either way.
Also I don't understand people who pay with a phone when contactless bank cards are simpler to use and faster. Just smacks of showing off.
bypsmears ( 629712 ) writes:
Also I don't understand people who pay with a phone when contactless bank cards are simpler to use and faster. Just smacks of showing off.
For most people I know that do this, it's just one less thing to carry - they'll have the phone with them anyway, so why carry cards/cash as well?
byViol8 ( 599362 ) writes:
Because not everywhere accepts apple or google for payments and if you're phone is lost or stoken you're screwed. Also it means giving apple or google your bank details in the first place.
byjonbryce ( 703250 ) writes:
In the UK, everyone, and I mean everyone accepts Apple Pay and Google Pay. I never carry cash when I go outside now.
byRockDoctor ( 15477 ) writes:
In the UK, everyone, and I mean everyone accepts Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Loosey Lucy down the docks?
Joe "no bleach" Drugdealer?
I think you mean "everyone who I deal with". Definitely not everyone.
Since I'm likely to head to rural Englandshire in the near future, I might remember to eyeball the traders at the farmers market. Since the car park the stalls are laid out on doesn't have power points and gas lanterns are used on the stalls that don't pack up and leave at dusk (so 4pm the last couple of months
byjonbryce ( 703250 ) writes:
Certainly at my local farmers market, which is within walking distance of an Elizabeth Line station, so not particularly rural, they all take Apple Pay / Google Pay.
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