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Why Gulf businesses buy software and keep using paper

An article by Matthew Truth, Co-Founder and Product Lead at Octabiz Walk into many small shops in Oman, and in parts of the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain too, and you will still see the notebook. A customer pays, and the sale goes on paper at that moment. Stock that arrives is written down: what came in, how much and when. At the end of the day, and again at the end of the month, someone goes through the pages and ticks everything off so nothing goes wrong. What surprised me is how many of thes

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Why Gulf businesses buy software and keep using paper
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