How is cash inconvenient?
Well:
- instead of just going to a shop, I now need to go to a bank, and then to a shop - I mean that's pretty obviously and undeniably less convenient for a start
- I have to carry a lot of little bits of valuable paper around with me - enough for an entire month of expenses in your opinion!
- when I pay I have to wait for them to count the money, gather up the change, return the change, which I then have to count, compared to just tapping my card and going
- I get no protections such as insurance for my purchases
I can't how understand how anyone can argue cash is more convenient!
And how can you possibly argue cash is faster? Paying by card takes 0.5 seconds - I don't have to even look at what I'm doing I just wave my card and go.
Your articles talks about arcane things like inserting your card, paper printouts, signing with a pen - you haven't needed to do that with cards for a decade or more.
Well:
- instead of just going to a shop, I now need to go to a bank, and then to a shop - I mean that's pretty obviously and undeniably less convenient for a start
- I have to carry a lot of little bits of valuable paper around with me - enough for an entire month of expenses in your opinion!
- when I pay I have to wait for them to count the money, gather up the change, return the change, which I then have to count, compared to just tapping my card and going
- I get no protections such as insurance for my purchases
I can't how understand how anyone can argue cash is more convenient!
And how can you possibly argue cash is faster? Paying by card takes 0.5 seconds - I don't have to even look at what I'm doing I just wave my card and go.
Your articles talks about arcane things like inserting your card, paper printouts, signing with a pen - you haven't needed to do that with cards for a decade or more.