I’m so tired of seeing ads for these things.
Where do I put my cash? Where do the coins go? Where do I keep the photo of my cat? What if I have more than 5 cards?
Why is it so expensive?
THIS IS NOT A GOD DAMN WALLET!!! You might as well tie your 3 cards with a rubber band and call that a wallet!
FUCK YOU
There was a thread about this on hacker news a few months ago. People there said Sweden has its own Alipay like system and some shops have stopped accepting cash. Some said if you pay in cash you seem shady now which is a typical hacker news thing to say though there was some pushback to it.
Not wanting data brokers selling profiles of all your purchases still seems reasonable to me.
last time I was there they had something called swish (?) which is a shittier weixinpay/alipay that most shops didn’t accept, and was mainly used to pay your friend back for lunch/drinks i think
Swish, correct. every store accepts it and it’s easy to use so it has effectively replaced cash.
interesting, supermarkets and a bunch of other places didn’t when i was there
even so, in china where paying with your phone has been the norm for over 10 years you can still pay with cash everywhere if you have to. nordics just decided it’s uncool and stinky to have physical money i guess
to be fair I haven’t checked every store in the country, but I see it’s available every time I’m in a shop or at a restaurant. if you enter some small private store it’s actually more likely they ONLY accept Swish
some supermarkets don’t accept it in the self-checkouts, so if you don’t want eye contact you gotta pay by card there
Is there a good reason for it?
I don’t know if it’s THE reason but at the ICA (grocery store chain) self checkouts the process is you input payment details first (blip card), then scan your stuff, then wait for payment to process, which wouldn’t work with Swish since it enforces the payment process to be atomic (getting the price first and then inputting payment details)
actually what might be THE reason for ICA is that they are also technically a bank and you can have your own special ICA card tied to your bank account
How many apps are there for Swish? The indian equivalent (UPI) is a Unified Interface and the apps are then made by private companies. There’s apps by Google, Amazon, some Indian private companies. They all add some weird features in it.
Swish only has one app, it’s organized by all major Swedish banks together to run smoothly
and I have to issue a correction to my previous posts: ICA self-checkouts absolutely support Swish payments. I was at ICA just now and I guess I never looked hard enough but there’s totally a button to bring up the Swish interface. it’s even more ubiquitous than I believed
Yeah that’s the one that was mentioned. Swish.