Was in Seattle for a day and walked into one of those Amazon stores without cashiers with a buddy of mine, grabbed some gum, and walked out. Instantly clear to me that nobody will ever walk into a store with cashiers again if they have the option to do this instead. I can’t speak to how deeply this tech will penetrate on what timeframe, just that if you can, you will.
https://fortune.com/2016/09/08/unbanked-americans-fdic/ "last year" being 2015.But the survey also looked at “underbanked” households, which have a bank account but still elect to use services like check cashing, money transfers, payday loans, and pawnshops. Little has changed in those numbers, as the percentage of the underbanked was 19.9% last year compared to 20% in 2013, a modest 0.1% change.