Google buys people stuff with Google Wallet for FREE

What better way to promote a new mobile wallet service than by sending a swarm of marketing people to stores and then having said marketeers offer to pay for strangers purchases? Thats exactly what Google recently did in New York and San Francisco, and guess what? It works. People flipped out, and rightly so, because they have never seen stuff like near field communication (NFC) based payment services in the wild.

There have been credit cards with little chips in them that do wireless payment, but Google explicitly says in the video that putting your credit cards on your phone is akin to man most amazing accomplishment.

Video Below!