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Cashless ATM
Look there, in between the Oreos and the Pringles, it's...an automatic teller machine!
The basic idea here is great: there are a million bodegas in New York that would like to have ATMs inside their tiny spaces. But why build all the cash-dispensing mechanics into the ATM when it's sitting right near a machine that already does this - the cash register. It works like a normal ATM but dispenses a receipt at the end which you give to the cashier who gives you cash. Supermarkets can afford to retool their registers, but small shops can't. It's a little unnerving trusting your ATM card to this thing (at one point the display read 'dialing', implying it had an actual modem inside), but when you need cash you're desperate.
Saturday, June 15, 2002 | Permalink | Filed in Products