Would you use a credit card, dip into your savings, or ask your employer, friends or family for help?" For a year and a half, we'd been using our questionnaire to measure how people manage their money around the world: Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania.
"Aside from waiting in a seven-person line, you just spent six minutes waiting on a credit card dip reader alone".
Less calculable, if equally maddening, are the delays caused by riders' failed swipes at subway entrances and their card-dipping aboard buses.
And while I appreciate the extra security EMV technology brings, I'm less optimistic about the card-dipping transactions.
We won't know until the ONS releases more detailed estimates of GDP how much of that has been driven by consumer spending; but maxing out the credit card or dipping into the rainy day fund can only get you so far, and the recovery will peter out unless inflation abates (unlikely in the short term) or households manage to boost their earnings to keep up.
As soon as the card is dipped into the machine, it turns into points.
Every time a chip card is dipped into a payment terminal, a unique number is generated to complete the transaction, which can never be used again.
Of course, we all know that you dip your card, and what more or less that dipping action involves".
Listen, Starbucks: writing the names of four kinds of red wine on a card and serving overpriced dips won't start us yelling, "Sod the restaurant!
At day's end. he dials into his bank from a pay phone, dips his card into the phone's.
