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by VLM 3780 days ago
If speed was a priority at restaurants, nobody would ever eat anything but McDonalds. Apparently speed is not the highest priority for food, at least for most people most of the time.

At more traditional retail, the cost of going to Target retail store is fifteen minutes rounding up the kids, sitting in the car for thirty minutes round trip, wandering thru parking lots and aisles for a half hour, waiting in line fifteen minutes, after ninety minutes of time a couple seconds at payment are a rounding error. If I'm in a hurry and not willing to invest ninety minutes to buy a frying pan, I can pull my phone out and amazon can deliver it with an investment of perhaps three minutes.

Contactless solves A problem, unfortunately its the wrong problem.