Sari shops and street food stalls: How e-payments have taken over India | CNN Business

Hong Kong/New Delhi CNN  — 

Indian weddings are notoriously elaborate affairs, requiring a multitude of outfit changes for multiple days of festivities.

It used to be normal for a family visiting Brij Kishore Agarwal’s sari shop, near the narrow lanes of Chandni Chowk market in India’s Old Delhi, to depart with a big bundle of bright, embroidered garments and leave behind a substantial pile of cash.

Worries that someone would break in and steal the money before he could make a bank deposit kept the store’s now-79-year-old owner awake at night.

These days he sleeps easier,

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