After the deactivation of Apple Pay and Google Pay, Russians not only used plastic cards, but also began to pay in cash more often. they write about it “News”Citing a study by the National Financial Research Agency (NAFI) Analytics Center.
According to his data, 40% of Apple Pay users and 35% of Google Pay users switched to cash.
It is also reported that 31% of Android smartphone owners have downloaded the Mir Pay app. At the same time, 7% of respondents announced the use of Samsung Pay service.
After disabling these two services, 96% of iOS smartphone owners and 63% of Android device users started using cards.
As NAFI Analytical Center expert Vladimir Gritsenko said in an interview with the publication, Russians use cash to save on buying, many online stores want to pay cash on receipt. He also pointed out that people were willing to spend the money they had withdrawn from their accounts at the end of February.
Earlier, twice in Russia since the beginning of 2022 grew up Number of payments by QR code. This happened after I disabled Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Source: Gazeta
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