Would you have the nerve to do this?

[kevbo]

One of my friends was refused at a local donut shop because he forgot cash and tried to pay a small bill with a credit card.

 

[chatolandia]

I use my debit card all the time
I only use cash at restaurants, when I go with friends and we split the bill
Dealing with cash is a hassle especially since you start getting the 12 cents and the 37 cents, and before you know it you have ten bucks in change!

So I use the card all the time...
It's called technology and it's meant to be used.

 

[Kulindahr]

I thought the crazy part was pushing the shopping cart with just that in it.
Was she leaning on it for support or something? I did that once after twisting my ankle.

 

[Soilwork]

Maybe she was looking for more than one thing but they were sold out of the other things she watned.

I don't carry cash EVER. I use debit for a 1-dollar item.

And who wants to walk through the streets with a tub of margerine..? I'd get a bag too.

 

[SilverRRCloud]

To each one his own.

I still like carrying a reasonable amount of cash with me and would really not go to places, where such a behavior is basically seen as unsafe. Thanks, but no, thanks.

If she caused neither delay nor major inconvenience to the others, there is little you want to say or do about it.

She has her ways and you have yours.

SC

 

[gsdx]

You guys have to buy your plastic bags?

It was begun her a few years ago and very few grocery stores offer free bags anymore. Many also offer the heavy-duty plastic bags for 99¢. It's an incentive to get people to bring the bags back and reuse them.

Most stores also have a little attachment on the carts for a 25¢ deposit. That tends to prevent people from removing the carts from the lot and, if they do, they usually take them back:

.

 

[chillyboi]

Was she wearing white after Labor Day?

kill her if she was

ahh.. i see i use credit or debit on 99.44% of everything i buy

 

[gsdx]

Maybe it's a giant ploy concocted by that woman to get her own thread in JUB. She cautiously stalked gsdx, followed him to the store, and brilliantly executed her plan when gsdx proceeded to purchase the big giant black condoms he picked out.

Her plan worked.

It’s all a giant conspiracy, gsdx.

Oh, wow! And here I thought she just needed margarine!

 

[1gayguy]

My daughter rarely carries cash with her and it drives me up the freaking wall. I keep telling her to stash a 20 in her walle because you never know when you'll need cash.
I always have a a little cash 10 15 20 on me just in case.

 

[kevin23]

I have a friend , yes this one is a guy, one year out of college who was going to write a check for a coke and chips at a little country store. I knew the owner and he looked at me in disgust as the check book came out. I payed his bill to avoid the embrassment.

 

[Lube]

Vending machines take debit cards for yogurt now.

Dollars, Euro, debit card--it all represents the same thing: purchasing power.

Debit cards don't have the fees that credit cards do.

 

[Swellegant]

You guys have to buy your plastic bags?

That's what I was going to say! That's the most shocking thing I've seen all day! That and the purchase of a single object in a grocery store. It's very rare I get out of any store with less than ten bucks on the line... I'm the sucker for whom they stock the checkout counters with impulse items like Altoids and magazines and eyeglass repair kits.

However, I used my debit card to buy three dollars worth of marbles yesterday. I didn't have any cash on me. I don't like using cash, anyway, and avoid it whenever possible... it's so damned cumbersome. Swipe the card, punch in your PIN, and press OK... a hell of a lot easier than rummaging around in my pockets for my wallet, then trying to remember which pocket I put the cash in, and do I have any change, and then putting it all back again with the change from the purchase... pah, I have better things to do with my (and the clerk's) time.

 

[angedelune]

i watched a woman at a convenience store buy 20 dollars worth of lottery tickets and lose it all. she then proceeded to turn around and buy a package of cookies with food stamps (an EBT card) I was summarily pissed.

 

[RicanDAB]

I don't think it is that unusual at all ... I rarely carry more than $20 cash. I use my debit card for most purchases. Some debit cards have programs attached to them like frequent flyer and Visa Rewards that add up so there's an incentive to use them whenever possible.

i watched a woman at a convenience store buy 20 dollars worth of lottery tickets and lose it all. she then proceeded to turn around and buy a package of cookies with food stamps (an EBT card) I was summarily pissed.

So wrong ... Clearly her priorities are mixed up!

 

[JasonIsBi]

I do not carry much cash on me at any given time, so paying with a debit card is fine with me. Why carry around more than 20 dollars in cash on you at any given time. I work in the service industry and I see people carrying around over 500.00 in thier pocket or in a wallet, all in 100s and 50s, and maybe a twenty thrown in. To me that is stupidity.

 

[thermodynamics]

NOOOOOOO!

All merchants pay a 1-3% fee to the card companies (Visa, and others) for each debit or credit card purchase. Many small merchants also pay a flat "transaction fee" (about $1) for credit or debit card purchases. It's because of this that I make it a rule to pay cash (I always carry it) for anything under $20 (except gasoline).

Most, if not all, gas stations around here have "pay at the pump". They will still pay the transaction fee and the discount fee, but since I'm the one doing the card swiping and not a cashier, I feel that it is justified.

 

[Swellegant]

^^ The smart merchant will figure in that fee when setting their prices; so if you're using cash, you're paying for a service you didn't receive.

There's a gas station in my neighborhood that offers a 10¢-per-gallon discount for people who pay with cash. Which means that they're charging 10¢-per-gallon to use a credit or debit card. And since their prices are comparable to the prices of all the other gas stations in the area, that leads me to believe that all of the major retailers are charging a more than sufficient fee to use credit and debit, even if you pay cash, but only this retailer is willing to refund that amount to cash-payers.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

first time double post

eat me

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

>>>>All merchants pay a 1-3% fee to the card companies (Visa, and others) for each debit or credit card purchase. Many small merchants also pay a flat "transaction fee" (about $1) for credit or debit card purchases. It's because of this that I make it a rule to pay cash (I always carry it) for anything under $20 .

actually no....... interact(debit card) if i remember is

14 cents per tranaction no matter the amount.

i always buy bags at price chopper or no frills
i just need them for garbage...............

 

[FPNY]

at least she didn't write a check. i get annoyed at people who pay with a check these days. the debit card is the way to go. some people are so 80's