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[-] NoPanko@feddit.uk 167 points 1 week ago

Im not about to trust a single point of failure with everything. If my phone breaks I want alternative options

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

When I saw my phone could have a digital wallet I went all in and left my physical wallet at home

  • The EFTPOS machines failed to process the payment so I had to leave my groceries behind and go without for a week (I only have one shot)
  • Rewards cards all failed to scan or tap intermittently
  • My phone ran out of battery sometimes
  • Metro card doesn't support phones

I went back to a physical wallet. It's way more reliable, the tech wasn't there yet 5 years ago and I CBF trying again

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago

It's OK, Gramps, let's get you back to bed.

[-] NoPanko@feddit.uk 41 points 1 week ago

Kids these days with their newfangled ideas!

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[-] LinkeSocke@feddit.org 113 points 1 week ago

that's dumb. I have a wallet and so does everyone else I know in my age. Im gEn Z. these stupid generational labels make no sense

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a pretty old meme. I can't remember the context anymore

Maybe marketing for phone payments

[-] LinkeSocke@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago

Even if you pay by phone, there is so much other stuff in my Wallet.

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Uhm... on top of not having my phone as my single payment method... where should I carry my id and driver's license and medical card if not in the wallet? Should I carry them loose in the pocket? Or in my bag? Why? That's so unconvenient and in the long term ends up damaging them.

[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I barely keep my phone on me, period. I hate the thing.

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[-] bob@feddit.uk 73 points 1 week ago

I strayed into not taking a wallet out with me briefly, then I realised my life shouldn't rely on Apple or Android (or my (lack of) ability to charge devices).

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[-] architectonas@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

Paying with cash is the most private method. I hope it stays.

[-] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

You already can't in so many places. I thought it was required to accept cash, but apparently that's only for paying the government.

[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 week ago

Cash is required to be accepted to clear a debt.

Cash is not required to be accepted to make a purchase.

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[-] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 week ago

I work retail and the number of phones/watches that have just failed to work means I'm never replacing my card. Sure, they could just be idiots who don't know how to use it like the people who can't use cards, but card just works.

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[-] zerofk@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 week ago

I love how millennial has become the new code for old. Gen X has been skipped again. As always.

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

My wallet isn’t owned by a tech conglomerate that has access and admin privileges to everything inside of it. Also, I just don’t want my phone to be everything, especially my I.D.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

My phone's dead. Guess I'm broke until I find a charger.

License, registration, and proof of insurance

Mind if I see your phone? It's just hard to read.

OH INTERESTING CONVERSATION YOU HAD WITH "WALGREENS GUY" ABOUT "SANDWICHES" HOW ABOUT YOU STEP OUTTA THE CAR

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[-] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

Yeah but inside it is $3.50

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah. It's just cards. I haven't touched cash in a decade, but I do have way too many cards I need that can't go in my phone.

[-] blackbeans@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

Same here. I can go with only a phone but then I would miss:

  • my ID card (mandatory here)
  • my driver's license card (mandatory when driving)
  • my health insurance card
  • my debit card (for when wireless payment isn't available)
  • my credit card
  • my public transport card
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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 week ago

But... How do they pay for the finest black market goods if they don't have a wallet to carry cash around?

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

I've paid for drugs at festivals with card because the dealer had an iZettle

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[-] Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago

Us millennials must age gracefully if youth can't recognize our age until they ask for our wallet

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[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago

Let me break out my checkbook in the grocery store line and watch their souls leave their bodies.

[-] belluck 24 points 1 week ago

Do kids in the US not have wallets? I don’t think I know anyone who doesn’t have one (in Germany)

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[-] smh@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 week ago

I left my wallet on my work desk and a youngling helped walk me through using my phone to pay for my drive-through coffee order. I felt so cool and high tech.

Of course, when we got to "turn on NFC" the youngling asked what NFC was. I think I told him it was like Bluetooth and let the phone talk to the card reader.

My older "forgot my wallet" technique was to make an online order for pick up and enter my organically memorized credit card information into the online form.

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[-] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago

Enjoy Google knowing all your transactions! angrily waves cane

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Admittedly, I only have a couple of gen Z friends, but they both have the biggest wallets of anyone I know.

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[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Idk What this people could be on about, I'm 22 and like, I have a wallet and a miniwallet that detaches from the main wallet.

Paper cash I usually don't have, but like cards and stuff.

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[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago

People keep talking about cash but I have a bunch of other shit in my wallet too, like ID card, insurance cards, bank card, several coupons, a bottle return receipt, cancer screening documentation, antiFamily card, pension card, organ donor card, and I don't even have a driver's license or that would go in there too.

Where do the youngsters keep all that?

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[-] BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've worked in IT support/Security for too long to have any of my cards just a short nfc tap away from being used/stolen from.

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[-] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

Police, show us you ID or got to prison.

Oh you see I'm a gen z...

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[-] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 15 points 1 week ago

I feel personally attacked, but I can block it with my thick wallet.

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[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

I get it you can pay with your phone these days. But I also have an ID and a public transportation card which can't be on my phone. Also I have cash on me. Where to keep that? Every time I pull out my phone or keys money falls out of I keep it loosely in there. I know Gen Z doesn't have any money, but where do you keep your drivers licence and public transportation card? And insurance card? Where do you keep your drugs then? I have some coke and keta in there as well. Putting it in my pockets and it ends up in the washing machine. And I keep a set of earplugs in there for when I go to a party or concert. Because I would always forget to grab them, I now have them with me all the time.

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