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Jim is a 72 year old IT person with over 50 years of experience. Growing up with Doonesbury and then Dilbert, he now follows xkcd, User Friendly, The Joy of Tech, Glasbergen and Bug Bash. He began creating this strip in 2014 and feels that the past two years are deserving of their own comic. He welcomes interactions.

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by JimBT200
10-27-14
ApplePay
This customer is using ApplePay. I ring up the transaction, she puts her thumb over the Home Button on her iPhone and it's paid. Faster than a Credit Card, faster even than cash.
Plus it's fun. Lots of stores will be using it and inside of a year it will be common.
CurrentC
But not WalMart, CVS and some other big stores. They turned off ApplePay and are offering their own version, CurrentC. It would be comic except it's really really bad.
First, they ring you up, then you have to wait, open an application on your phone, log in, wait for the data, then you can take a picture of a QR code with the application using your phone.
CurrentC
That will enable the register to print out a two foot long receipt pending approval which comes after you sign in and press pay. Then guess what? It's not over yet.
You have to produce two forms of identification, your driver's license and your social security card. I kid you not. It will add 3 minutes to every purchase.
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