Who Wins When Cash Is No Longer King?
It won’t be the poor.
by Sidney Fussell
Dec 21, 2018
3 minutes
Of the most popular coffee shops in San Francisco’s Financial District, only one is manned by a robot. Every morning, in a glass-and-wood booth on the corner of One Bush Street, customers queue around a whirring hydraulic arm, waiting for it to serve them cappuccino. It’s an odd sight. Cafe X has three San Francisco locations, and all are cashless and fully automated, with orders taken via app.
The one I pass on the way to work each morning is mere steps away from Amazon’s cashless Go store, where
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