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Where even banks don't accept cash any more
Bills and coins represent just 2% of Sweden's economy
Published Sun, Dec 27, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Stockholm
PARISHIONERS text tithes to their churches. Homeless street vendors carry mobile credit-card readers. Even the Abba Museum, despite being a shrine to the 1970s pop group that wrote Money, Money, Money, considers cash so last-century that it does not accept bills and coins.
Few places are tilting toward a cashless future as quickly as Sweden, which has become hooked on the convenience of paying by app and plastic.
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