Sunday market & credit cards
State of Rio de Janeiro
Deodoro da Fonseca (1827-92), a military officer turned the first president of Brazil in 1889. The equestrian statue of him was created in 1937, by the Brazilian sculptor Modestino Canto (1889 – 1967).
Near by is a Sunday market that sells produces, foods, second hand goods …
… A Chinese woman is picking … I consider this a selfish and terrible habit 缺德的陋习, and always wonder what do these pickers think:
- that the rest of us should buy her leftover?
- … if everyone is like her, she in fact, is buying the left over of other pickers like her
一个中国女正在挑 … 我觉得这是一个自私的习惯 (陋习; ‘缺德’可能有些言重), 并且总是想知道这些挑三拣四者的想法：
- 难道我们其他人应该她买剩下的吗？
- …如果每个人都像她一样, 她实际上也正在购买其他像她一样的挑剔者的剩余物品, 不是吗?
At the Market, did I realize Rio (or Brazil, in general?) is a cashless city/country, which fits me just fine. For the past few years, the US based credit cards don’t even ask us to register when traveling abroad: just go and we’ll handle the rest (might be the chip on the cards?) – which is all the more convenient. From restaurants to small vendors with a few water bottles to sell, they accept credit card, mostly Visa and or MasterCard. Every road and corner there are multiple street vendors, some with push cart some with a backpack, selling cold beverages – can cafés survive the competition, or some the street vendors are part of the physical establishment near by? From the second day on, we don’t even bother to bring our water bottle: fresh coconut and cold drinks are so readily available at your finger tip. 喜欢信用卡的通行度. 满大街卖冰/水的小贩们 人手一个收银机. 在这个背后 不知道信用卡公司的努力… 小咖啡店的挣扎. 相比之下 德国🇩🇪小商店/街市都还是现金… 😜 对我这种从来不换当地货币的懒人来说 非常方便.
What’s the back story: how and what did credit card companies do to have such wide usage in a third world country (a/c is NOT guaranteed in shops …), and how and what do stores/cafés do to win the competition?
今天Uber 小哥看俺在照相 好心提醒俺 “… 小心 不要被人抢手机…” 这是来后第一个提醒. 俺觉得Rio 挺安全, 虽然最好的酒店都有些惨不忍睹 周围环境本应该高大上 但也就是New York 23 街的感觉.
From our hotel in Centro, it’s a short and easy walk to PraçaParis, and a huge market is next to it, selling produces, foods, second hand goods … After the long walk, we turned away to Escadaria Selarón.
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