Merriam-Webster has both pronunciations
Hush. people dont want to hear that. they KNOW only one pronunciation is the one true right one. 
By the time I came along my parents weren’t smoking or at least they weren’t smoking at home. I have no idea what their brands were.
I used to hate self checkout. Ok I still do but now I feel like it’s my only choice. Ever since my state banned plastic bags I walk into the supermarket with a fist full of mismatched bags. It’s just easier to do it myself
It is best if at least some of them have a competitor’s name prominently on them.
They are mostly Walmart and Prime bags that I take to ShopRite.
At the local international food store, the cashiers will bag the groceries for you if you use the store provided plastic bags (10 cents each) but you have to bag yourself if you bring your own bag. Not sure why the difference.
Neither of my parents smoked.
Similar, except i rarely do self checkout.
- My closest supermarket hires people to bag groceries.
- Three other nearby places have the cashier bag groceries.
- I shop somewhat frequently at an “honor system” farm store, where i scan and bag my groceries.
- I also sometimes shop at ethnic markets where they ring everything up, but i bag my own groceries. That’s the least common for me, though.
I rarely use self-checkout when i shop at places where there’s a choice, because I’m slow at it, and usually have a lot of groceries. And because i didn’t do it very often, I’m even slower, because i don’t know where to put the scanned item to satisfy the machine, or whatever. (At the farm store, there’s a camera, but no other security. So i put stuff wherever the hell i want, and check that everything scanned properly myself before giving it my credit card. Much more easier. Also, they typically have fewer customers than scanners when I’m there, so I never feel guilty about making someone wait.)
For those wondering, California does indeed have an electronic proof of COVID vaccination, if you opted in to have the vaccine provider share your vaccination record with the state. You could log in to a website and download an electronic vaccination card, and add it to your smartphone’s wallet app. I had it on my old phone, but it apparently didn’t transfer over when I got a new phone. I’m not going to bother to add it, since no one asks for proof of vaccination anymore.
I don’t know if smartphone based library cards are a thing anywhere, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was.
Just a comment - several of the virtual options are indeed on my phone, but NOT in the wallet. They have dedicated apps - the store loyalty cards, my states COVID option, google play store (a google PrePaid card). But I don’t put any of my credit cards in the wallet, even if on a few Apps (the Amazon App) it’s saved under my purchase options.
Just to make things even less clear!
My “something else” in my wallet is a passport card.
The only thing in my Google Wallet is my blood donor card, which I added mainly out of curiosity about how Wallet worked. My phone doesn’t support contactless payment or adding any ID.
I don’t use any kind of smartness wallets.
I do download my boarding passes and other travel docs as needed. I also have a picture of my passport and driver’s license in a file.
Not interested in using my phone for payment.
Oh, and I have a Clipper Card (Bay Area transit pass) in my Apple Wallet. I live ~2 hours from the Bay Area, and travel there maybe once a year, so the Clipper Card is useful when I travel there. I used to have a physical card, until I lost it last year. I requested a replacement, so I got most of the value that was on it back, minus the fee for a new card. And when I got it immediately added it to my Apple Wallet, because I figure I’m much less likely to lose my phone than a card I rarely use.
That was me. Now I’m on board. I probably only actually do it once or twice per month, but there are times I find it perfect.
My phone “wallet” is primarily just for tickets to events. I did use it as a “key” at a hotel once. That worked pretty well.
I’m not sure whether my phone counts as a smart phone or not; but it doesn’t for this purpose. It can’t download any apps it didn’t come with, and it didn’t come with a wallet, or with very much else. It theoretically could do email and it has a browser, but the screen is so small that with my eyes those are both useless to me, except possibly in some sort of emergency which hasn’t occurred.
If it did come with a wallet I doubt that I’d use it. I don’t like to even do financial stuff on the computer when I can help it.
In my physical wallet I’ve also got business cards. I didn’t mark gift cards because I don’t have any right now; if somebody gives me one to a brick-and-mortar (which occasionally happens) then it does go in my wallet, but that doesn’t happen very often. I did mark receipts though those probably aren’t in there either as I sort them out to other locations at some point after I get home and I think it’s cleared out at the moment.
I have most of that information on my phone (frequent flyer numbers, a photo of my driver’s license, digital access to two local libraries…) but not in my phone’s “wallet”. When i lost my physical wallet in Barcelona, it was super helpful that i was able to find a photo of my driver’s license on my phone, as well as apps that link to my credit cards, etc. I was able to cancel the credit cards and apply for new stuff within two hours of the wallet disappearing.
Losing the phone would have been far worse than losing the wallet.
I originally read this as “smartass wallets.”
Until the poll, I wasn’t really aware that a “smartphone wallet” was even a thing. I’m still not sure what one is.
I believe it is an information storage utility that allows marketing researchers to study you in order to hone their targeting. You are welcome to believe that I am paranoid.
I have both a Clipper card (Bay Area transit) and a Suica card (Tokyo transit) in my iPhone’s wallet. It was incredibly easy to install the Suica and load it with money on the phone for my recent trip to Japan. I could do it from my home in the US before the trip. Much easier than buying and loading a physical card, like I used to do.
I also have tickets for ten upcoming concerts and sports events. That’s a pretty typical number. I love using the phone to store tickets. No worries about misplacing concert tickets bought half a year earlier — they’re always on my phone.
Losing one’s wallet in a foreign country must have been a nightmare.
I have most of my important information such as access to my credit cards through the website on my phone and pictures of important documents. I just don’t use my phone for banking.
I don’t see well on a small screen and it’s often difficult to navigate through some of the systems. I do my banking online on either a desktop or laptop which is better for me visually.