11 Ocak 2009 Pazar

Shopping Without CA$H


The time when the cashless society becomes reality is drawing nearer and nearer.Many methods are already being used in the trade world .EPOS(Electronic Point Of Sale),for example, is only a fisrt step of progress in electonic shopping.The customers sit at home surveying the merchandise on their television screens and ordering their requirements-and they have their funds automatically and invisibly transferred from their bank acount to that of the store.
Already ,shoping over the phone ,by quoting credit card numbers,has much the same effect.This plastic money,too,is advancing into an era of automatic debit and credit-soon those tedious waits during shopping .What the new technology can't yet do,though,is to check that the person presenting the card is in fact you!

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