Originally Posted by
Noctilum
The novelty ran out pretty quickly. I used to get comments a lot but now everyone has a metal card. Even an Amazon Prime card is metal (same grade as CSP/CSR) which is easily obtainable with no annual fee (outside the Prime membership cost). Maybe next they will all fight to have the weight of the Ritz card, but I see things moving more and more to smartphones in the next couple of years.
They still need to differentiate between the various cards, so I doubt they'll all become the weight of the Ritz card.
As for smartphones, NFC still doesn't seem all that used by customers so I'm not sure about that. People might gravitate more towards retailers' mobile apps though.