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The Nastier Nate posted:the cops i work with all basically say "dont call us unless its $500 or more" aren't some places just keeping a running tally of a person shoplifting via store cameras/self check out records, and once it hits $500 then going after them?
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pentyne posted:aren't some places just keeping a running tally of a person shoplifting via store cameras/self check out records, and once it hits $500 then going after them? This is what Target does specifically (let's you get away with it while documenting a case until it's felony territory) but others probably also With facial recognition and other tracking tech it's probably trivial these days
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Only if it's not bananas
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Surely you don't mean to suggest that capitalists would waste money on spite
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Professor Beetus posted:the lowest ATM fees of any ATM I've seen since the 00s (like 1.50) Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:the US hasn't adopted chip and pin for credit cards still, just chip and signature
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Tiggum posted:Americans are still paying ATM fees? We haven't had those here since 2017. most places these days have the tap and go function, at least in big cities.
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Yeah even small mom and pop places have tap to pay, sorry you don't get to be smugly superior to America about payment systems anymore, just about literally everything else.
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Tiggum posted:Americans are still paying ATM fees? We haven't had those here since 2017. Where do you live? Australia still has ATM fees too except for 4 banks. And they're trying real hard to push people off cash here, too. Like cashless is meant to be a good thing? lmao
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Bald Stalin posted:Where do you live? Australia still has ATM fees too except for 4 banks.
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The perception of the US as a frozen in time cash/check/card signature nightmare is what's outdated now since funnily enough they fixed their poo poo right before Covid. They even have parcel boxes now, with app support and everything, walking through a major city you can almost feel like it's the late 00s Then you look in the background and see that all of this is still bolted onto decaying infrastructure
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Shame Boy posted:Yeah even small mom and pop places have tap to pay, sorry you don't get to be smugly superior to America about payment systems anymore, just about literally everything else. *chuckles in German*
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Dog Case posted:You are under arrest for time theft lmao are their names a Dolph Lundgren shout out
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i am harry posted:gods definitely in that tiny cube, clearly. where else would he be. it's called a tiny house, get with the times grandpa
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Still lots of tax-dodging restaurants here in Boston that are cash only. Also because credit card processors are skimming 2-3% off of every transaction. Everything is tap to pay here when they do accept cards; we've replaced all machines with the chip system at least 5 years ago. Whooping Crabs has issued a correction as of 13:16 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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How the gently caress do you "pay by tapping"? Tapping what? Is this one of those things where you have to have a smartphone and apps? Like when places have a barcode to scan instead of a menu, and my phone won't do it and the waitresses get annoyed and I never go back again?
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BRJurgis posted:How the gently caress do you "pay by tapping"? Tapping what? Your card has a chip in it and you tap the chip spot on the card against the swiper thing at the register
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BRJurgis posted:How the gently caress do you "pay by tapping"? Tapping what? 
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BRJurgis posted:How the gently caress do you "pay by tapping"? Tapping what? Peepaw, what are you doing out of bed?!
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500excf type r posted:Your card has a chip in it and you tap the chip spot on the card against the swiper thing at the register No I swipe it I don't loving tap it, jeez 
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my USA region also does not have pay to tap
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Swiper no swiping
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Tapping that rear end
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Actually my new phone the NFC is nearly too powerful, by the time I'm getting it out of my pocket 2 feet away from the tappy thing it's already tapped. Premature tapulation
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3D Megadoodoo posted:No I swipe it I don't loving tap it, jeez I do too but my strip doesn't read sometimes and the cashier looks at my card, shakes their head, and taps my card-in-my-hand against the machine and it works
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HOW CAN SHE TAP?!
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If you try to use the magstripe most of the machines here are set up to tell you "no idiot use the chip or tap to pay" and will only let you use the magstripe as a fallback if those fail
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In the US, there’s a little logo on your card if you can tap to pay, it looks like )))) except they go from small on one end to large on the other end. It seems like most banks and credit unions add the capability when they reissue your card but don’t tell anybody that it exists. I use Square to accept credit cards in my business, and their little reader has been accepting tap-to-pay for years, and I’m still blowing peoples’ minds when they can just tap their card to pay me.
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500excf type r posted:I do too but my strip doesn't read sometimes and the cashier looks at my card, shakes their head, and taps my card-in-my-hand against the machine and it works What strip?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What strip? A thin coating of bog metal endowed with magical properties by a money wizard
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Bald Stalin posted:Where do you live? Australia still has ATM fees too except for 4 banks. Cashless means that there is a middleman for every transaction, the banks think that that's a great thing
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the actual reason they want everything to be cashless is that it means homeless people are no longer living "off the grid" and still have to have some form of monthly payment (like a cell phone) to allow them to interact with civilization in the most basic ways, like obtaining food
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adding middlemen at every step of the transaction is a nice american bonus to the whole thing tho
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the actual reason they want everything to be cashless is that it means homeless people are no longer living "off the grid" and still have to have some form of monthly payment (like a cell phone) to allow them to interact with civilization in the most basic ways, like obtaining food Like many things in our society, I don't think the CEO of Visa is rubbing his hands together thinking about how great it will be to gently caress over the homeless or whatever, it's just a fun side effect as they add middlemen and transaction fees to everything.
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Shame Boy posted:Like many things in our society, I don't think the CEO of Visa is rubbing his hands together thinking about how great it will be to gently caress over the homeless or whatever, it's just a fun side effect as they add middlemen and transaction fees to everything. i do
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no i'm not saying they're doing it to gently caress them over, I'm saying they view them as a market they're currently not capturing because it's the only way they can view people
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I don't think the people actually making these decisions think about homeless people... at all... ever... I guess is my point 
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Cashless rules everything around me Honestly I kinda hate it. Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the actual reason they want everything to be cashless is that it means homeless people are no longer living "off the grid" and still have to have some form of monthly payment (like a cell phone) to allow them to interact with civilization in the most basic ways, like obtaining food Plus it has the knock on effect of dragging every paranoiac into the light. Which is good, because I love being surrounded by extremely well armed crazy people.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:no i'm not saying they're doing it to gently caress them over, I'm saying they view them as a market they're currently not capturing because it's the only way they can view people Ah ok, yeah I could totally see it from that angle sure.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:adding middlemen at every step of the transaction is a nice american bonus to the whole thing tho yeah other countries can still be smug about our money infrastructure. lol it's not the fact that we finally have the technology in place that actually matters, it's the fact that they've made every piece of technology a middleman. it costs everyone at every step of the process a percentage of your money just to be able to use it.
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