>>>He got the swipe card right but folks have not given up completely on handwritten checks yet either.
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>>What really amazes me is how *all* of those people somehow plan it to do their grocery shopping in such a way as to be ahead of me in the checkout line ...
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>There still is a place for cheques.
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>A lot of small tradesmen will not be able to take a card and people paying may not want to have that much cash to pay. Especially elderly people (like you :-)) . They may not want to have to carry around cash. My wife works as a therapist and is often paid by cheque and I know a lot of her clients wouldn't want to be walking around with nearly £100 cash in their pocket.
Exactly why banks have debit cards as well as credit cards. Every supermarket, drugstore, gas station takes them. Goes directly out of the checking account.
There is some resistance to credit card fees on the part of small businesses, I grant you, but a lot of them are moving to credit and debit cards to get the money faster. One of my clients is a parking lot management company and we've moved steadily to credit card paystations for transient parking and email invoices with cc payments on a website for monthly parking. The float on the money ( and not having to keep large cash amounts in parking lots ) pays for it.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
