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                    Mobile payments







                   disrupting the status quo?






                                By Humoud Salah Al-Sabah                 Consider the case of mobile payments.
                                                                         Sweden  opened  its  first  unmanned
                                      ash is still king in the GCC.      convenience store in March last year.
                                      But that is soon to change. The    Amazon is testing a grocery store in Seattle
                               Cbeauty  of  disruptive technology        with no checkout lines. Customers check-
                                is it disrupts, no matter what. Either   in at the entrance of the store with a new
                                companies adapt quickly, or get          app called Amazon Go, then grab whatever
                                swamped under.                           items are needed and when they are done





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