But It Makes a Neat Sound

Apple rolled out Apple Pay, the latest attempt to convince Americans to replace their credit cards with their smartphones to pay for goods and services. Why would Americans make the switch? A pretty pretty sound.

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  • One of the best things about Mexico is that it is a cash economy! πŸ˜€

  • alex_the_tired
    October 27, 2014 3:05 PM

    Keep in mind the cosmetic effect as well.

    We used to have cashiers who knew that a lemon doesn’t cost $4.99.
    “Well, the machine says it’s $4.99.”

    We used to have cashiers who could do basic math quickly in their heads. I once gave cashier $10.25 for a $2.17 purchase. She rang it up as $12.25 in error and gave me back $10.08 in change. (Go on. Imagine the cashier’s actions in your head. Take the $10. Drop the quarter. Grab eight cents. Hand the eight cents and the same $10 back to the customer.)
    “Well, the machine said it was $10.08 in change.”

    Give it a few more years and these machines will become OBLIGATE. There simply won’t be enough people who know how to do math (or to be suspicious of what they’re reading on the printout screen) to keep the businesses from losing a fortune.

    • My wife, having been schooled in Germany, would ALWAYS blow a cashier’s mind. As an off-the-top-of-the-head example, if her purchases yielded a total of $7.17, she might give the cashier a $10.00 bill and a quarter. They didn’t know how to deal with that without grabbing a separate calculator. πŸ˜€

  • Dopamine in the frontal cortex is nice (i e, in the right amounts and places in the frontal cortex) but I can think of other, more interesting ways of stimulating release of that substance…. πŸ˜‰

    Henri

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