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13888617 No.13888617 [Reply] [Original]

How do you respond to this kind of thing at grocers?

>> No.13888628

My favourite grocers are the ones who don't accept credit, only debit and cash. They're the real heroes.

>> No.13888633

>>13888617
Well if you're at a grocery store there's rarely going to be a time where you're not spending more than 10$. I'm sure there's a reason why, but it seems silly to regulate such a thing.

>> No.13888643

Judging by the style of writing (wanna be graffiti), misspelling of the word accept on the bottom left, I can almost certainly say that's a ghetto grocery / deli. I only see minimums at ghetto places where I live. I try to avoid ghetto stores like the plague due to the people and the awful quality produce anyway

>> No.13888648

>>13888633
Vendors get charged a per-transaction fee to process the credit card charge. I guess under $10 is where they lose too much profit. If nobody really likes credit cards, I don't know why we're still using them. Credit companies are a parasite on commerce.

>> No.13888650

>>13888617
By paying with cash? I don't think anybody is accepting cash right now though.
>>13888633
>I'm sure there's a reason why, but it seems silly to regulate such a thing.
Because there are fees when you pay with a card, and the store is the one that pays them. There's usually a flat fee plus a percentage of the transaction, for low cost purchases the flat fee can be very significant.

>> No.13888651

Never seen that at a grocery store but I see it all the time at bars. Retarded if I'm bar hopping I'm having 1 drink minimum and its almost never over $10.

>> No.13888653

>>13888617
>masturbate
>go to the store without washing my hands
>buy anything
>hand him my card
>im a smelly boy
>the look in their faces when they have to touch my cummy card

>> No.13888656

>>13888617
That's literally the only reason I carry cash, but it typically only happens at small Asian/Indian grocery stores these days.

>> No.13888664

>>13888650
>>13888648
>Credit companies are a parasite on commerce.
Agreed. Well it makes sense now. I've seen places charge a fee for using a credit card and not spending a certain amount of money.

>> No.13888671

>>13888664
The only things it makes sense to pay with credit are expensive things that exceed your monthly income. I don't know how we got to this point where we put groceries on credit cards. It's fucking broken.

>> No.13888675

>>13888650
>accepting cash right now
which is a stupid idea, credit and debit cards aren't immune to the virus sticking on them.

>> No.13888680

>>13888671
They know there's people who don't really think things through and act on impulse. I'm sure credit card companies love those impulsive shoppers.

>> No.13888684
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13888684

Whip out the cash I usually cum on.

>> No.13888685

>>13888680
It's either that, or there are that many people out there who cannot afford groceries. There's something really wrong about this.

>> No.13888691

>>13888675
You don't have to handle a customer's card though.

>> No.13888694

>>13888617
I'd wonder how I ended up in this shithole, over here actual physical market stalls even accept debit cards and prefer it over cash

>> No.13888706

>>13888685
I never thought about it that way, it would make perfect sense that a person who can't afford groceries would have no other choice than to purchase with credit. The second I started hearing about the panic buyers it just really irked me. The fact that people are so quick to become entirely selfish in a time of crisis rather than shopping out of necessity and thinking about the needs of others really bothers me. It bothers me even more that the news constantly pushes that fear mentality into people which caused it in the first place. What's wrong with the world? I know I'm delving off topic but I just can't wrap my head around all of this. The news should be more responsible with how they handle things but it seems they don't care, they just care to fulfill their agenda, despite the repercussions of their fear mongering.

>> No.13888742

>>13888617
I pay cash unless my groceries are over $10, duh.

>> No.13888759

>>13888691
You do in places where contactless is not yet common.

>> No.13888767

>>13888617
>not excepting americand express

ESL typos aside, fuck that, if I can't get my 6% back then I aint shopping there

>> No.13888777

>>13888767
And yet they're still taking fucking Diners/Discover.

>> No.13888786

>>13888617
>excepting

>> No.13888797

>>13888706
This news isn't innocent but that's just the nature of people man. Not to get political or shit on them but that's the problem with liberals/leftists they're just too empathetic for their own good. This crisis is just a taste of how shit the western world would descend into chaos as there's no solidarity

>> No.13888804

>>13888797
Empathy is what the world has needed twenty years ago. A person can never be too empathetic. I firmly believe and stand by this.

>> No.13888838

>>13888617
Report them to the credit card companies. They are not allowed to have minimums.

>> No.13889226

>>13888648
You're a retard. Only literal peasants pay in cash (paper or debit). Buying on credit is better in literally every way, and facilitates a wealth transfer from idiots actually spending currency on day to day needs to patricians floating balances against a credit line that they handle at the end of the month. The ONLY downside to credit is that it enables retards like >>13888671 to overspend, but if you're that much of a mouth breather you probably overdraw your checking account anyways.
>>13888671
You've got it fucking ass backwards. Spending beyond your means is the only time you SHOULDN'T pay with credit, because you shouldn't ever spend beyond your means.

>> No.13889247

>>13888706
statistics and research shows that in times of crisis the world actually gets more helpful and behaves more empathetically, it's just that negativity gets more attention. Also, those in control want you to believe that there isn't hope.

>> No.13889263

>>13888617
there's no reason to respond.
they get charged a transaction fee by the credit card prosessor.
they can pass that on to everyone in the form of higher prices across the board, or they can discourage those with small bills from paying in a manner that results in the business incurring the fee.
also, this thread is off topic.
this is no more about food and cooking than a tipping thread.
fucking kill yourself.

>> No.13889272

>>13888643
I think they spelled it correctly, though.
They're saying the rules apply to AmEx too, not that they don't accept it.
I guess we'd have to go there and ask to be sure, but takes MC but not AmEx?

>>13888617
Ten dollars isn't a lot and if I only went there for one cheap item I'd just get a bottle of boose or something to hit that mark.

>> No.13889276

>>13888838
Since when?

>> No.13889286

>>13888617
Imagine not understanding in 2020 that anything other than cash is the mark of the beast. Enjoy your "convenience", retard.

>> No.13889333

>>13888767
>>13888786
My faith has been restored. If I got to the bottom of the thread with no one mentioning the error, I was going to flip out.

>> No.13889418

I've always wondered how cards are used in the US, do you still need to swipe it and shit or do you actually use pins now? I use contactless 99% of the time at this point

>> No.13889436

>>13888617
i live in a completely cash society so i never have this problem.
just always keep like $200 cash on you.
nowhere accepts card anyway.

>> No.13889441

>>13889436
Where is that? We're moving towards a cashless society and I'm genuinely looking to emigrate if it happens.

>> No.13889476

>>13889333
The third reply is about that, idiot. And excepting could be correct.

>> No.13889486

>>13888617
use cash or go by their rules. are you dull?

>> No.13889625

>>13888838
That's just not true.

>> No.13889632

>>13888671
>The only things it makes sense to pay with credit are expensive things that exceed your monthly income.
If they exceed your monthly income, you shouldn't be buying them.
The ONLY right way of using a credit card is by activating automatic payments on it and using it like it's a DEBIT card, using only money you actually have while also getting whatever cashback carrot they dangle in front of your face to make you use the card.

Using a credit card in any way that couldn't also apply to a debit card is nigger-tier thinking.
"I'm gonna buy a huge TV with this tax return"-tier thinking.

>> No.13889640

>>13888671
>I have no self control and I have no fucking idea how money works
Good luck in life, you'll need it