Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content

• duchess@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People are so angry in here that they didn’t catch the obvious sarcasm.

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Then stop buying things.

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Welp I guess I don’t have bills now. No electric bill, no water bill, no car loan, no phone and internet bills, nope. Captain_aggravated says so.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Your utilities won’t take checks. Sure.

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      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s correct. Some of them don’t.

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• squozenode@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My mother asked me the other day “does $LocalGroceryStore still take cash?”

  I looked at her like she had five heads and said, “yes”

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s mostly small places that don’t. I think they started during covid so they didn’t have to physically take anything from the grubby customers, and found they didn’t lose much (if any) business over it.

    Cash still costs money to handle, either for the time or wages of taking it to the bank, or paying somebody to collect it every day.

    I guess it helps that contactless payments are now ubiquitous. Practically everyone has a phone, and readers like SumUp and Square can be had for a few quid.

    But then there are places that still only take cash, because it’s easier to hide that from the tax man.

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    • dkppunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Recently, I’ve actually found the opposite to be true in the US. Smaller places prefer cash because they can avoid the CC fees that they get charged for every single swipe. Many places have a sign at the register that they add an additional ~3% to the bill to cover fees which it can be avoided by paying in cash. I’ve started using cash over the last year to avoid the additional charges, especially for takeout.

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      • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We had a card surcharge ban bought in a few years back. The shops aren’t allowed to charge extra, and unless you’re employing family members or not declaring the cash (and for a lot of small takeaways, it’s probably both of those) it probably works out more expensive to handle the cash.

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