没到周末，各大商超超市给我的感觉是：里面的商品是不要钱了吗？为什么会有那么多人？会什么会排那么长的队伍呢？大家手里打包小包，人民币也是哗哗的往收银台送；还有一类是刷卡的，只听就pos机的吱吱声。那么以后的支付生活将会成为什么样子呢？下面我们一起来看看文章是怎么说的吧。

The old-fashioned wallet will be obsolete in the US within four years, an electronic payments company has claimed.

Scott Thompson, the president of PayPal, said: "We believe that by 2015 digital currency will be accepted everywhere in the US – from your local corner store to Walmart.

"We will no longer need to carry a wallet," said Mr Thompson, whose California-based company profits from customers switching from physical money to payments online and over mobile phone.

"Consumers are increasingly giving up traditional payment methods," including cash, cheques and even debit cards, Mr Thompson said.

Earlier this week Harrods became the latest major retailer to stop accepting cheques as payment.

Mr Thompson made the comments in a blog post to mark what the company claimed was its 100 millionth subscriber.

The company has launched a publicity campaign in which five people in San Francisco will attempt to pay for all their purchases with digital currency, despite the fact many shops still do not accept it.

PayPal has said it expects to process $3 billion (£1.9 billion) worth of payments over mobile phones this year.

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