These Common Household Objects Will Be Obsolete In a Few Short Years

Cash Registers

With cash becoming the least popular way to pay, and self-checkout the preferred method of quick transactions, cashiers and cash registers will both be out of a job soon. If there are cashiers, most use technology like Square, a card reader that connects to your phone. Cash is really on its way out thanks to all of these quick paying advancements.

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