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Welcome to the Business Buffet podcast with Ed Beharana and Phil Anderson.

This is a conversation in and around business with a pinch here and a sprinkle there

of anecdotal stories.

Like most buffets, we too will offer the business staples.

In addition, we'll offer up a smorgasbord of special business strategies too.

Our Business Buffet podcast aims to give you the fundamental

principles and strategies any successful business needs to know. We hope you're hungry as the business

buffet is open and ready to serve. Now, here is Ed Beharana and Phil Anderson. Well, hello again,

everyone. This is Business Buffet, another episode coming at you.

Hopefully you are hungry and ready to be satisfied by some business ideas and strategies.

The question, our title of today's episode is, what is consumer friction?

And Ed and I talked a little bit about this.

I believe it's actually a coined phrase.

But I'm going to ask you, Ed, because I want to get this out of the way right off the top,

because it drives me nuts.

There's a tried and true payment form of checks and cash

that businesses accept for services and product.

At least for a couple of hundred years, cash has worked out.

Right?

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