GENERAL IELTS WRITING Task2: in the future, people may no longer be able to pay for things in shops using cash. All payments may have to be made by card or using phones

Do you think

this

will happen one day? Why do you think some

people

might not be happy to give up using

cash

?

While

making

payments

in

cash

in stores has not

been

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disappeared completely, card and mobile phone

apps

are considered to make

this

obsolete in the years to come. Even if some

people

feel

this

trend is not as safe as paying in

cash

is

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, I firmly believe that we are almost on the edge of

the

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era

which

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all

kind

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of

payments

will be made by using plastic

cards

and mobile

apps

in shopping malls. In society, we have a kind of

people

who are too susceptible to accept news or a new form of some

sorts

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of inventions and other stuff in our daily life. One of the common

feeling

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feelings

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is that making

payments

by

cards

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card

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or using mobile phones is not safe enough. They have a fear of being attacked by cybercriminals.

This

make

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them less sure to use

cards

and special payment

apps

. They carry

therefore

cash

with them

,

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when they need to go

for

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shopping.

Nevertheless

, there are a couple of advantageous sides

of

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to

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paying by

cars

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car

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and

payments

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payment

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apps

, in general. The first obvious reason is that carrying

card

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a card

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or

phones

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phone

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is rather convenient than

cash

.

This

makes shopping much easier and less worrying in a way that

enabling

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clients to do large

shoppings

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shopping

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at once, especially for

shopoholics

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shopaholics

, and not

being

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afraid of pickpocketing as well. Another upside is to save time during making

payments

. It is commonly observed in large stores

costumers

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customers

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need to

be stand

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on quite long queues. Obviously,

this

leads to

lose

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losing

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client’s

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the client’s

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precious time.

Conversely

,

cards

and payment

apps

make

this

process way faster and unmistakably. All in all, to take all those cases

in

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account I would argue that we should have transformed our payment methods to new ones, even if some

people

will not be happy.