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Crunchtime for Cash at Singapore’s Famed Hawker Food Stalls

  • Stallholders targeted by government to go easy on using cash
  • Lucky draws, cash bonuses among incentives to adopt e-payments
WATCH: Singapore wants its hawker centers, run by elderly vendors, to give up cash and go digital. @cangsizhi spoke with one vendor in the city-state.(Source: Quicktake)
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Singapore officials trying to digitize the economy are targeting a tricky group of holdouts: elderly vendors who run the country’s famed hawker stalls.