Cashless society getting closer, survey finds


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 26 Apr 2017

FILE PHOTO: A customer pays with a contactless credit card at a store in Paris, France, April 11, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo

LONDON: More than a third of Europeans and Americans would be happy to go without cash and rely on electronic forms of payment if they could, and at least 20% already pretty much do so, a study showed. 

The study, which was conducted in 13 European countries, the United States and Australia, also found that in many places where cash is most used, people are among the keenest to ditch it. 

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