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In article <80p985$9io$1@news2.kornet.net>, Chris McConnell
<spastic@frii.com> wrote:
> melissa I feel it my duty to infom you that checks are a dead
> technology. Credit card are and have been the wave of the future for
> a very long time. Hurry get with the program in 5 years no one will
> take checks. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you.

Uh-huh.  And if you believed the "what will be" reports of five years
ago, we were all supposed to have secure, encrypted, untraceable
e-cash by now, usable from within the "smart cards" we're all supposed
to have been carrying around.  And yet checks, conventional credit
cards and paper cash still thrive.

Paper checks will be written in, if not the majority, a very large
fraction of retail establishments for the next twenty years.  Any
grocery store, for example, that tries to stop taking checks (in a
suburban middle-class area where there is competition, anyway) is
going to find its revenues slashed in a big hurry.  I don't see this
changing any time soon.

I say all this as someone who never writes checks except to pay bills,
and who is trying like hell to wean his wife off the nasty habit.
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