NY: Time For A Reality Check

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Marianne Crimar works the day shift at the Little Pie Company of the Big Apple's store in the Chelsea district of lower Manhattan. Since January, she says, the store has accepted contact-less payment cards, and even has a MasterCard International PayPass sticker on the front door. Now if only her customers would start using contactless cards to buy pies, cookies, cakes and other baked goods. "I haven't seen anyone use (contactless cards)," she says during a lull on a Thursday afternoon in March. The cards, which customers tap or wave at payment terminals, would save time at checkout, especially during holidays, when long lines can form. "I'm fast," Crimar says, "but not that fast."