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A crunchy showdown
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A crunchy showdown

Issue 695: 18 March 2025

Walkers Crisps vs. Faster Payments – A Crunchy Showdown

In this “crunchy showdown” we take two completely unrelated things and force them into a head-to-head battle for no good reason.

Today’s contenders?

  • Walkers Crisps - the undisputed king of British snacks.

  • Faster Payments - the system that made sending money go from “waiting three business days” to “done in a second.”

One revolutionised snack time, the other revolutionised finance.

But which had the bigger impact?

Let’s find out in this head to head battle of four rounds


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