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>> > The reason dollar coins are not popular is because COINS are not
>> > popular.
I remember a news item from NPR about the way coin purses
have been rediscovered by young Italians
since they converted to more coins from printed money.
>> Rick, that isn't entirely true. Dollar coins would be popular if
>> vending machines took them. They do not.
Huh? Plenty of vending machines around NY/NJ take dollar coins.
Particularly the transit TVM (ticket vending machines).
>We are only a few years away from vending machines that take plastic or let you
>pay with a cell phone. These are already used in Europe and Japan. That will
>spell the death of coins to a large degree (as well as the paper dollar).
Atlanta's airport has a very high tech Coca-Cola vending machine
(not surprising since Atlanta is CocaCola's HQ).
- credit card payment, even the new contactless cards
- large flat video screen playing Coke commercials
A NJ highway rest stop had credit card payments on the ice cream machine
with instructions for how to buy more than one item on the same transaction.
So it's here already.
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