Comments on: Retail Sales are Dead http://www.ryanduff.net/2009/03/13/retail-sales-are-dead/ ramblings and more from ryan duff Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Maxwell http://www.ryanduff.net/2009/03/13/retail-sales-are-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-724 Maxwell Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:04:47 +0000 http://www.ryanduff.net/?p=64#comment-724 I agree 1000% with your observation dude. Here in East Africa -- specifically Kenya -- Safaricom's M-PESA (mobile money) has empowered millions of "unbankables" whom the snobby banks used to ignore. I can now send peeps MONEY by M-PESA and withdraw cash via thousands of M-PESA agents around the country. Or better yet, re-route the funds to Equity Bank (EB) -- which is also an M-PESA agent (and who decided to join in rather than fight Safaricom's hugely innovative mobile money...unlike RIAA with MP3. lol) -- and simply withdraw it from an EB ATM machine for a teenie weenie transaction fee. I do like going to nice swanky clothing stores though to take a peek at the hot skirts selling those Calvin Klein jeans. Ya can't do that online. lol. Cheers! I agree 1000% with your observation dude. Here in East Africa — specifically Kenya — Safaricom’s M-PESA (mobile money) has empowered millions of “unbankables” whom the snobby banks used to ignore. I can now send peeps MONEY by M-PESA and withdraw cash via thousands of M-PESA agents around the country. Or better yet, re-route the funds to Equity Bank (EB) — which is also an M-PESA agent (and who decided to join in rather than fight Safaricom’s hugely innovative mobile money…unlike RIAA with MP3. lol) — and simply withdraw it from an EB ATM machine for a teenie weenie transaction fee.
I do like going to nice swanky clothing stores though to take a peek at the hot skirts selling those Calvin Klein jeans. Ya can’t do that online. lol.

Cheers!

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