Checks

Target stopped accepting paper checks at the register last summer, an example of how this payment method is in decline. According to an article in AARP Magazine, Americans are using fewer checks and young adults hardly use them at all. The history of checks dates back thousands of years as a medium of transferring value without actual currency. Mesopotamians used clay tablets to record transactions and as a method to pay for goods and services.Similar practices took place in ancient Rome and Greece with the modern concept beginning in the medieval period.

The word “Check” is believed to have d...