Comments on: Canada First To Go Cashless? http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/canada-first-to-go-cashless.html personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:04:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jason http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/canada-first-to-go-cashless.html/comment-page-1#comment-10641 Jason Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:08:39 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/canada-first-to-go-cashless.html#comment-10641 I doubt we will ever see any cashless society in my lifetime. We might get to the point in a generation where seeing cash will be pretty rare though. I doubt we will ever see any cashless society in my lifetime. We might get to the point in a generation where seeing cash will be pretty rare though.

]]> By: raj http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/canada-first-to-go-cashless.html/comment-page-1#comment-10638 raj Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:10:40 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/canada-first-to-go-cashless.html#comment-10638 Greetings from Canada. I haven't heard any such thing, and I actually write about RFID and cashless payments at 6 different websites. My pick, based on research, is South Korea. They have a LOT of RFID trials going on. They've embraced it - at least the government has - whereas Canadians (and probably Americans) are quite concerned with privacy issues and I doubt they'll ever be first to go cashless. There are cashless trials here, though. The small city I live in as actually one of about three "demographic microcosms" in Canada, which supposedly represent the rest of Canada. If a trial of any consumer product doesn't do well here, it does not get wider release. A cashless card, Mondex, was given a trial run here, and in a small city in Quebec province, and one other place. It did very poorly and was never released widely. However, this was a couple of years before the Internet went public. Maybe things will be different now, maybe not. Greetings from Canada. I haven’t heard any such thing, and I actually write about RFID and cashless payments at 6 different websites. My pick, based on research, is South Korea. They have a LOT of RFID trials going on. They’ve embraced it – at least the government has – whereas Canadians (and probably Americans) are quite concerned with privacy issues and I doubt they’ll ever be first to go cashless.

There are cashless trials here, though. The small city I live in as actually one of about three “demographic microcosms” in Canada, which supposedly represent the rest of Canada. If a trial of any consumer product doesn’t do well here, it does not get wider release. A cashless card, Mondex, was given a trial run here, and in a small city in Quebec province, and one other place. It did very poorly and was never released widely. However, this was a couple of years before the Internet went public. Maybe things will be different now, maybe not.

]]> By: Inchoate Random Abstractions http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/canada-first-to-go-cashless.html/comment-page-1#comment-10630 Inchoate Random Abstractions Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:43:10 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/canada-first-to-go-cashless.html#comment-10630 Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall reading last year about cell phone payment technology being widely used in Japan. I think Canada may be a bit ahead of the U.S., but I seriously doubt that they're going to be the 'first' to go cashless. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I recall reading last year about cell phone payment technology being widely used in Japan. I think Canada may be a bit ahead of the U.S., but I seriously doubt that they’re going to be the ‘first’ to go cashless.

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