Going Cashless: My Journey Into the Future
I paid for my morning coffee using the Starbucks app on my iPhone, picked up lunches
with a credit card and ordered-in the occasional dinner using Seamless.
And when I got an overpriced drink with some New York Times colleagues at the steakhouse below our newsroom, I had to
add my tip to the credit card bill, a decidedly less satisfying experience than leaving a few singles on the bar.
In a study last year by ING, the vast majority of respondents from the United States said they would never go completely cashless.
He said that while he didn’t see cash disappearing entirely anytime soon, he — no surprise — had mostly let it go
But what began with an empty wallet on New Year’s Day has evolved into something akin to a lifestyle change.
As I checked out of a hotel in Charleston, S. C., I didn’t have anything to offer the valet, which made me look — and feel — cheap.
