Will the next big thing in payments involve our fingertips, palms and faces?
In February 2019, when few people would have imagined that a pandemic would profoundly affect the way we purchase things, Research Co. and Glacier Media asked Canadians about their habits.
Plenty has happened since then. Amazon Go store locations in Seattle have allowed customers to pay for purchases with their palm. This year, Starbucks started using similar technology at a Washington state location. On a regional basis, Ontarians are more likely to look forward to biometrics purchases than their counterparts in British Columbia , Alberta , Quebec , Saskatchewan and Manitoba and Atlantic Canada .
As expected, there are some peculiarities. One in 10 payments made by Canadians aged 18 to 34 involved a smartphone. The country’s youngest adults are also more likely to have paid with cash at some point in the past four weeks than their older counterparts.
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