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I feel we in New Zealand, despite our small size, we actually have modern POS systems. I have been using contactless Visa regularly for at least 3 years now and have switched to Apple Pay recently. It is so popular here, that relatively small number of vendors who do not have contactless, have stick a physical label on the POS device saying "No Paywave" so when the customer goes to wave, they know do swipe/insert instead.

I've heard that we are a test bed for some technologies, given that the sample size is small relative to the world. An example of this was Pokemon Go, which was AFAIK release first here in NZ (and Australia).