I thought debit cards and other plastic cards would speed up lines

[Jeff7]

When the person with the card isn't a complete moron it is fast enough. Most of the buttons are pressed before the cashier even finishes scanning. Even if it is a small order a competent person will be barely slower than a person with cash and correct change in hand.

The flip side is that morons get stuck on these things a lot. IMO if it takes you three tries to get through the menus then you should have your license revoked. Not because it is directly related to driving but because you have demonstrated you are too stupid to operate a simple machine and definitely can't handle the complexity of driving. Really you should be walking or using a bike with training wheels.

You've also got the cashiers who don't know that the system can handle a card at any time. They see something come up that they're not expecting, hit Cancel reflexively, and then the card has to get swiped again.


And I'm sure there are some systems that can't handle the vast amount of data presented to them when a card is swiped at the wrong time.
Or they've got a terminal that needs to ask you all kinds of BS marketing questions, and if you don't wait until the register is ready to command the card reader to issue those prompts, it has to start over.
I guess I should be glad that they don't bring up individual prompts (yet) to post about my purchases to the various social media companies. "Coca Cola and Kmart would like you to do some unpaid advertising for us."

 

[Metron]

They truly don't speed up anything. they slow everything to a crawl. Money motherfuckers..put some bills in your pocket you fucks.

I almost never carry cash, so allow me to enlighten you. You're looking at this issue from the wrong perspective...

Try using cash these days, and the "cashier" has NO F'ing CLUE AS TO HOW TO MAKE CHANGE.

"Cashier" then wastes precious time trying to learn how to count change and then bills to properly make change for a Yuppie Food Stamp ($20) because the number of people who pay with cash is infinitesimal.

Use cash, and you only slow down the gatekeeper (the cashier) for everybody else.

 

[who?]

Your cashiers in Canada need retraining.

 

[OutHouse]

I was in the grocery store today, and a woman used a check like a debit card. She gave the cashier a blank check, and then did something on the terminal. I wasn't paying super close attention because it's impolite, but I've never seen that before.

I use cash. It works, and it's anonymous. It's nobody's business when I'm buying amoni... um... kitty litter.

walmart does this

 

[Eos]

Shocking. A thread about credit cards, and the cash only people make a huge stink about how cash is the only way. Shocking.

 

[It's Not Lupus]

Not if it's old people holding the cards.

 

[alkemyst]

Cash is really dirty in lower denominations. I have actually thrown away dollar bills that I couldn't exchange once. The entire stack smelled like a dead person. I was in the middle of nowhere, I can't even remember where the fuck that was. The whole event I felt I was going to be axe murdered.

 

[Mai72]

Lol

 

[alkemyst]

Lol

Up the Mayne Game, bro. U can do it!

 

[Mai72]

Up the Mayne Game, bro. U can do it!

Did he leave us? You guys were kinda nasty to him in his tread about his sister.

 

[anothermacuser]

Cash is really dirty in lower denominations. I have actually thrown away dollar bills that I couldn't exchange once. The entire stack smelled like a dead person. I was in the middle of nowhere, I can't even remember where the fuck that was. The whole event I felt I was going to be axe murdered.

Yeah it sucks in the US, dirty ass dollar bills messing stinking up my wallet. That's part of why I use credit for everything.

Much better in Canada where it's coins up to $2 and the Euro-using countries where it's coins up to $2.67. Not to mention the fact that in the latter the smaller coins mean smaller units, as opposed to the arbitrary relation between value and size in US and Canadian coins.

 

[Dumac]

I don't know where you guys shop. Literally all I have to do is swipe my CC once.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i had some cabbie bitching to me about using my CC instead of cash.

jesus man, i don't want to deal with coined money. that's why i don't use cash.

 

[radtechtips]

Do u fucks not just run your debit card as credit?

 

[MongGrel]

Did he leave us? You guys were kinda nasty to him in his tread about his sister.

Hmm

You seem oddly curious in a few.

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