Review on "Using Touch n Go to buy fast food in Malaysia will be reality" which is one of the post of e-tailing from My E-Commerce blog.
Have you think about if one day, your wallet is run out of cash and you've drop or forgotten to bring all your credit cards and ATM card but inside there is only have one piece of Touch 'n Go card which contains about few hundred bucks inside? But again, you only aware that after you're ordered your food in a particular fast food restaurant?Some may answer "Well, I can just cancel my order" or "Walk out from the fast food restaurant directly". Such action may create a very embarrassed situation. But from now on, I believe this will not be an issues for everyone who is the holder of Touch n Go card, we will look into it more further later.
Touch 'n Go which is a charge card that make prepayment in order to top up the value of the card. Such card which is currently being widely used in Malaysia for the toll fees collection, public tranports and parking paying device.
From April 2008 onwards, Touch n Go are available for use to purchase burger, drink, doughnut, and even movie tickets from 21 outlets which located in the Klang Valley under the pilot scheme.
Those 21 outlets which under the pilot scheme are such:
7-eleven, A&W, Caltex, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, Cathay Cineleisure, and there will be more in the coming future.By providing such service, Malaysian will slowly adopt into this cashless transaction culture. In Hong Kong, a prepaid charge card which same as Touch n Go in Malaysia called Octupus card.
For what i knew, such culture were adopt by Hong Kong citizen successfully. The Octupus card that their holding are accpeted widely within the country, no matter in retail outlet, restaurant, public transports and so on.
According to Hasni Zarina Mohamed, who is the chief operating officer of Touch n Go, stated that such adpotion is to assist and support Bank Negara's to move for a cashless society. She hope that by next year the rate of the cardholder used it for retail is about 5% to 10%.By the way, it is a good start for providing such services in Malaysia, because we malaysian can have another alternative ways to make transcation payment beside using bank notes, coins, and credit card.
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- http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/12/nation/20902911&sec=nation
- http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/2008/04/using-touch-n-go-card-to-buy-fast-food.htm
Pictures and images
- https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh60dIFjPEl_jTEXuQ2SrGtQAp-Ox6peQpwweJDE-c1qq-G6SFP_ZlZNiHVPqw0jA9riWCvTkHP-28UH-nUNZtdHhzXxrJwrVykCLWdNd5_WNCcJwdXLauN2Wdrlujp2dShx9aI4XKTi6_H/s400/Cashless.JPG
- http://www.touchngo.com.my/
1 comments:
It is not so commonly used currently. That should be a good invention in the near future though.
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