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by jebus989 4599 days ago
All of them accept online payments. It's really not a big leap to being able to pay for something through their website while in their store and walk out with it. Some places do this now, especially for bulky items, just scan the barcode in-store and they'll deliver it your house.

If I'm carrying a wallet or keys in my pockets in 10 years I'll be pretty disappointed.
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Nursie 4599 days ago
From the industry side of this - online payments suffer a lot more fraud and just generally have a worse risk-profile than traditional "customer-present" transactions.

Specifically online card payments. Unsure about through other processing facilities.

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jebus989 4599 days ago
What about combining online payments and customer-present, serve an intranet over wi-fi?
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