cashless – The Spinoff

Farewell to cheques: How Kiwibank is helping customers into a new era

5 February 2020 by Maria Slade

The idea of paying someone by signing a piece of paper may seem foreign to younger people, but less tech-savvy New Zealanders are having to adapt to a world without cheques. When Kiwibank announced in May last year that it was going to do away with cheques from the end of this month, some of … Read more

NZ on the grab-and-go back foot as Japan grabs our cashierless technology

15 October 2019 by Maria Slade

In their quest for a cashless society the Japanese have beaten New Zealand to its own next-gen shopping experience. New Zealanders are missing out to the Japanese on a Kiwi technology that is set to eliminate supermarket queues. The first store to implement the SmartCart cashierless shopping system will be in Osaka, not Auckland, despite … Read more