• Stern@lemmy.world
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    We need to adopt the Japanese way to buy stuff with cash. You get a bar code, take it to a convenience store, scan, pay. Clerk doesnt even know what it is. Just, yup, paid for, donezo. 7-11 could offer it and make bank, like how gas stations make a grip on sodas and the like from folks going in to pay for gas.

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        4 days ago

        If I had to choose between that and VISA telling me I can’t buy a game because it hurts their feefees…

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          I really don’t think this kind of maneuver from payment processors should be allowed at all.

          Or maybe there should simply be a more diverse array of payment processors?

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        In Japan, most of the convenience stores are very well distributed making it that you often times have one close-by. Additionally, a lot of those convenience stores are 24/7 open. With it being open any time and having it close-by, it is still convenient enough if you can muster to go to a store and pay by cash. If you live in the city for example, you have one that only takes 1 to 10 minutes by foot.

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          compared to just using your card when you make the order it is much less convenient

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        On the one hand, they’re a workaholic culture that basically doesn’t allow for a social or family life, so obviously their population is aging and the last ethnically Japanese person is going to be born in 2042.

        On the other hand, they might just have a point.

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      Well, there’s being for legal stuff, but then there’s also avoiding actually shitty stuff like the people on the Epstein list were doing.