Seen in "Marqt" a biologic supermaket in Haarlem.
The title of this post could be translated as 'Better pin than cash' and it refers to the preferred way of paying in the Netherlands. I understood pretty soon that without a debit card you are unable to buy lots of things here. For instance, a lot of train and metro ticket machines do not accept cash. There are also several self-service petrol stations with only pay-at-the-pump systems. In some other places, such as the canteen of Utrecht university, you can only pay with 'chipknip' which is the electronic purse card.
Why this anti-cash trend?
Cash has a lot of drawbacks for both sellers and consumers. As an iterative process, customers get money physically at an ATM or bank and sellers need to drive it to their banks even hiring an armored car service. Both need to have enough amount of bank notes, coins, or exact change in some cases. And of course, the most obvious reason, handling cash is less safe for everybody: miscalculated change, employees cheating, assaults, robberies...
However, there's a certain type of store in The Netherlands in which you can never pay with an electronic transfer... Can you guess where this is?
domingo, 5 de mayo de 2013
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