karol_zielinski

I didn't want to write why I recommend to buy this product, because I simply don't want to recommend buying of this product. I didn't buy it earlier, so why should I recommend to buy it?

I just wanted to pay attention to the great business idea, not great product.

it's really good to know that. thanks a lot for an information.

Sometimes it doesn't have a sense to install terminal for card payments. However it's a very rare exception.

In most cases not-only-cash policy makes good business sense. Especially when the competitors from the same street or at least competitors from the same industry have such terminals.

Absolutely agree. Good point.

Biedronka is a discount shop. We can't require from these kind of shops that they may want to pay extra money for using terminals for card payments. Remember that in many of these stores you could find an ATM next to the till.

Most of the shops are not discount stores. They have normal products, with normal prices. They can (and should) pay some extra money for a possibility of card payments, because if they want to exist - they need to meet customers' needs. Today, most people expect that they will be able to pay by card.

I think that don't accepting cash is a little too much. However I agree with you. Managing cash could be even more expensive then managing money on electronic bank accounts.

True. I've never run a shop.

However I know few of the shop owners. All of them are saying the same thing: problem is money or sometimes technical issues (e.g. someone doesn't know how to use computer or a terminal for card payments; doesn't want to learn new things; is afraid of new technology).

I agree that paying by cash can help move things along, but that's the only one (in my opinion) argument for this kind of payments. I don't want to say: 'don't take cash', just: 'give your customers a choice. give them a chance to pay at least by cash, or by card'.

As for an amount of purchase... I understand transaction fee problems related to these kind of things. That's why I think that people need to realize that if they want to pay by card - they need to buy something more then just a newspaper. Unfortunately we can't jump over the bank charges.

However... it would be a really good idea to build a system, which would take money from your bank account or a credit card once a month for all the things you bought in that month.

still growing - it's 15 right now ;)

I can't agree with you. It's not like "OK, let's add some more time to our project schedule. But wait! We gotta take some off due to Parkinson's! You end up with the same damn schedule." because we are not talking about schedules of external projects. We are talking about our own projects or tasks from our lifes. We are talking about being productive and not wasting a time for unnecessary works.

When you are working on external projects (however not only) you put more time to schedule, because you are afraid about the unpredictable things. All of that is because all delays cost you lots of money. However in many cases you don't need to do it. In many cases finishing tasks as soon, as it possible is much more important than having some time, which was scheduled for something unpredictable. Especially when you are working on your own projects.

That's the point of Parkinson's Law.