Remember a time when your hard-earned shillings didn’t just awkwardly shuffle from hand to hand but flew across the shop floor in a tiny rocket-powered pod? No? Well, let me introduce you to the glorious world of cash carriers—the unsung heroes of retail before we all started tapping our cards like wizards casting minor inconvenience spells.
Picture this: you’re in a bustling department store in the early 1900s. You buy a nice pair of trousers. Instead of the cashier fumbling for change, they dramatically place your money into a small tin canister and launch it across the store using a series of tubes, wires, or rails. Somewhere in the depths of the building, a mysterious clerk (possibly a goblin, I assume) processes the transaction before sending your change whooshing back to you.
Now tell me this isn’t objectively more exciting than today’s self-checkout machines that demand you unexpectedly remove item while judging your every move.
Honestly, I think it’s time we bring these back. Why let Amazon have all the fun with drones when we could have our shopping change zipping around on a network of high-speed pneumatic tubes? It’d be a lot more entertaining than waiting for a card machine to “approve transaction.” Plus, imagine the drama if someone’s change derailed mid-flight—retail chaos at its finest.
What do you think? Would you trade Apple Pay for a high-stakes, coin-flinging adventure? Let’s make cash carriers great again!
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