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Wow, that took me back. I don't remember seeing anyone swiping their card in recent years, even chipcards are becoming more and more uncommon - contact-less payment leads the way now.

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Where do you live?

Outside the United States.

That was easy enough to infer, what wasn't was where in the world contact-less payment systems came to dominate. Even in Europe chip appears to be the norm. China? Japan?

In UK and AU, contactless payments dominate, particularly for low value transactions. I suspect that's the case in Japan too.

China has a mishmash of system from in-app payments (a la WeChat) to QR-code based systems.

Poland. In one of the top5 cities here but nevertheless, even if I'm visiting much smaller ones it's hard to find a place where you cannot pay in a contactless fashion. This PayPass, or whatever is called, technology really took off here in the last 5 years.

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