Ordering a Wedding Crown, the Delivery Person Arrives, Money is Withdrawn from Your Card: Gabrielian on Cashless Payments

Sometimes it feels to me as if we are living in a completely different reality. Let’s say I give you 50,000 drams in cash and transfer 50,000 drams to my card; tell me one product or service in the Republic of Armenia that I wouldn’t get faster than from you.

This was stated by Sisak Gabrielian, a member of the National Assembly from the Civil Contract party. He said, “Let’s say someone is bedridden, and you’re replacing cash with cashless payments. Sure, but my dear, if someone is lying in bed and can’t move, how can they pay their utility bills with that cash? If you transfer 50,000 drams to my card, I will instantaneously pay all my utilities.”

Gabrielian added that today, any purchase, payment, and service in Armenia can be done cashless. “From utilities to sad events. There’s a website where you can order a wedding crown, and the person delivers it, withdrawing money from your card,” Sisak Gabrielian noted.