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5) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
A world without cash. In Sweden, that is now all but a reality. Whether you're buying a ticket for the tram or bus, a meal at a restaurant or café, paying for the parking lot, or even the public bathrooms. All you need is a card or mobile phone.
We've come to a flea market in the center of Stockholm. There is the usual ___________ of bargains, most of them can be purchased for very little. But you soon notice that virtually every stand has a sign bearing mobile phone numbers and often a name too.
If you find something you like, you just pull up your phone and swish. It's Sweden's very own mobile payment system.
“I bought a couple pair of pants for my sister and a dress - sixty Crowns for both.”
“And you pay with a mobile right?” “Yes!”
“Always with mobile?” “No card mostly, but like these cases, it's really good to pay with Swish, Yeah.”
So how does Swish work?
“Basically, you just need a person's phone number. So you type the person's phone number and it will announce like who the person is, that it belongs to and then you will just get _________________. Like if somebody swishes me, I would get a notification that the money is in my account.”
Sweden's banks got together to launch the service as a joint initiative. The _________ is to simplify payment and cut costs.
“I never use cash.”
“From my view, if you can be completed without cash, I mean I think that would be good.”
“I hate having cash on me. They just disappear, if you have it in pockets sometimes I even throw them in the ________________ because I don't know what.”
The prospect of cash disappearing completely doesn't bother most people here.
“Most of the cash that exists today, they don't exist in physical money. So, I think we are already there and when individuals stop using physical money, that's just a very tiny small step in this whole process which has been going on for a long time.”
There are dissenting voices, but they're the exception.
“I'm forced to it. We cannot use cash money in Sweden anymore and this is very, very, little. Because they took it away. So I have to use my card. I would like to choose for myself but I will use it like this. I don't want to use the card here because I don't know the people who works here and I feel not safe to use my cards, especially my credit card.”
A world away from the big city, Linn runs a gas station on one of Sweden's ____________ small islands. She still accepts both cards and cash.
“Well, I would say I prefer the credit cards. We try to keep the cash amount as low as possible. We have this safety box here but there's also risk with the cash. But if I see as a merger, the expense on handling the cash is now higher than my credit card expenses. And yeah, I would say I prefer if they use the cards.”
5) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
A world without cash. In Sweden, that is now all but a reality. Whether you're buying a ticket for the tram or bus, a meal at a restaurant or café, paying for the parking lot, or even the public bathrooms. All you need is a card or mobile phone.
We've come to a flea market in the center of Stockholm. There is the usual ___________ of bargains, most of them can be purchased for very little. But you soon notice that virtually every stand has a sign bearing mobile phone numbers and often a name too.
If you find something you like, you just pull up your phone and swish. It's Sweden's very own mobile payment system.
“I bought a couple pair of pants for my sister and a dress - sixty Crowns for both.”
“And you pay with a mobile right?” “Yes!”
“Always with mobile?” “No card mostly, but like these cases, it's really good to pay with Swish, Yeah.”
So how does Swish work?
“Basically, you just need a person's phone number. So you type the person's phone number and it will announce like who the person is, that it belongs to and then you will just get _________________. Like if somebody swishes me, I would get a notification that the money is in my account.”
Sweden's banks got together to launch the service as a joint initiative. The _________ is to simplify payment and cut costs.
“I never use cash.”
“From my view, if you can be completed without cash, I mean I think that would be good.”
“I hate having cash on me. They just disappear, if you have it in pockets sometimes I even throw them in the ________________ because I don't know what.”
The prospect of cash disappearing completely doesn't bother most people here.
“Most of the cash that exists today, they don't exist in physical money. So, I think we are already there and when individuals stop using physical money, that's just a very tiny small step in this whole process which has been going on for a long time.”
There are dissenting voices, but they're the exception.
“I'm forced to it. We cannot use cash money in Sweden anymore and this is very, very, little. Because they took it away. So I have to use my card. I would like to choose for myself but I will use it like this. I don't want to use the card here because I don't know the people who works here and I feel not safe to use my cards, especially my credit card.”
A world away from the big city, Linn runs a gas station on one of Sweden's ____________ small islands. She still accepts both cards and cash.
“Well, I would say I prefer the credit cards. We try to keep the cash amount as low as possible. We have this safety box here but there's also risk with the cash. But if I see as a merger, the expense on handling the cash is now higher than my credit card expenses. And yeah, I would say I prefer if they use the cards.”
