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02/10/2012 02:55:42 PM · #1 |
I find this to be an annoying trend at my regular Tim Horton's. What, you can't be bothered to carry $1.40?
I can only take solace in watching them type in their PIN numbers.
7692 just five minutes ago.
I wonder what the significance is.
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02/10/2012 02:58:55 PM · #2 |
Who bothers to carry cash any more? The less I have to carry, the better, IMO.
Also, many places/card processors don't require PIN entry on purchases less than $15 (at least around here), so it's actually quicker than cash (without the shoulder-surfing-slippy risk too)... :)
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02/10/2012 03:04:29 PM · #3 |
I'm with manic. Debit cards, at least, seem faster than cash to me. Depends on how swift the register person is, somewhat, but at worst it's a push...
R.
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02/10/2012 03:07:00 PM · #4 |
| at least they didn't write a check. |
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02/10/2012 03:08:23 PM · #5 |
I think the retailer has to pay a percentage on each card use. I suppose that cost is forwarded to everyone.
At dinner last week, the restaurant offered us a 5% discount if we paid cash. A respectable place, Beni Hana style.
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02/10/2012 03:10:25 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
...Depends on how swift the register person is,... |
I keep a change bowl on my desk, and bring exact change. :-)
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02/10/2012 03:10:40 PM · #7 |
You should have haggled with them. You probably could have gotten the coffee for under a dollar with only a few minutes invested in price negotiations.
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02/10/2012 03:16:13 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
You should have haggled with them. You probably could have gotten the coffee for under a dollar with only a few minutes invested in price negotiations. |
I should at least get a 5% break, wouldn't you think?
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02/10/2012 03:25:09 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by scarbrd:
at least they didn't write a check. |
LMAO, isn't that the truth?
I don't think I've spent $1.40 on coffee... EVER.
I'm a StarBucks kinda gal, so my coffee is $6.00 minimum. Oh... but what a sweet indulgence.
Forgot to mention, I almost never have cash on me.
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02/10/2012 03:27:47 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
I find this to be an annoying trend at my regular Tim Horton's. What, you can't be bothered to carry $1.40?
I can only take solace in watching them type in their PIN numbers.
7692 just five minutes ago.
I wonder what the significance is. |
Agree on the coffee bit ... but how about TimBits???!!!??? Now that's something that's truly card-worthy! |
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02/10/2012 03:30:11 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by dyridings:
...I almost never have cash on me. |
You sound like my brother-in-law whenever we go out as a group.
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02/10/2012 03:59:03 PM · #12 |
| i payed for mine with a credit card just this morning. its actually faster than cash. i gave my last $2 to my daughter so she could by lunch. |
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02/10/2012 04:09:33 PM · #13 |
Speed wise, I will admit that I'm much less annoyed by cards than by the senior citizen who waits five minutes in line doing nothing, and only after having her order rung in begins scrounging through her hockey bag of a purse bringing out one coin at a time. THAT brings me to the brink of a FREAKOUT!
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02/10/2012 05:04:56 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by dyridings:
I'm a StarBucks kinda gal, so my coffee is $6.00 minimum. Oh... but what a sweet indulgence.
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My brother never called it StarBucks, he called it FiveBucks because that was the minimum purchase requirement. |
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02/10/2012 05:07:57 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
I'm with manic. Debit cards, at least, seem faster than cash to me. Depends on how swift the register person is, somewhat, but at worst it's a push...
R. |
Dunno about that...An extra large coffee at Tim's is two bucks flat (a Toonie for us Canucks), which I already have in my hand before I get to the counter.
Beat that for fast :O)
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02/10/2012 05:09:44 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
You should have haggled with them. You probably could have gotten the coffee for under a dollar with only a few minutes invested in price negotiations. |
Sure, or some old fart (a quickly irritated one) would have paid for his F)(*&^g coffee, just to get him out of the way...Now there is a saving.
Ray |
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02/10/2012 05:15:25 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Speed wise, I will admit that I'm much less annoyed by cards than by the senior citizen who waits five minutes in line doing nothing, and only after having her order rung in begins scrounging through her hockey bag of a purse bringing out one coin at a time. THAT brings me to the brink of a FREAKOUT! |
Not as bad as some four eyed young-un in a cheap suit who just started working in a local bank who ordered a small coffee and a donut... and then..........wait for it.........asked for a receipt.
I honestly thought that my inner voice, (the little one) said "Get fucking real"......seems it wasn't my inner voice after all.
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02/10/2012 05:17:41 PM · #18 |
| Funny... I usually have at least 3 credit cards on me (ok, 2 credit, one debit) and a few hundred in cash. Don't know why anyone would not give themselves multiple options. |
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02/11/2012 08:25:05 PM · #19 |
| Cash is so Neanderthal... |
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02/12/2012 12:11:20 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Cash is so Neanderthal... |
Grog no use evil card-of-owing. And Grog remind Doctor-of-runny-nose that Grog is Cro-Magnon. Would be like Grog call you gyncekul gunycollo gynekollogist Doctor-of-females.
Grog sets record straight.
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02/12/2012 08:17:31 AM · #21 |
The smartphone in Korea just pays, no typing of pins etc. I believe that Korea will be the first cashless society in the world. That is now if you exclude most of Africa where they are already cashless.
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02/12/2012 08:23:33 AM · #22 |
A lot of it has to do with the electronic age. Who goes to the bank any more? I have direct deposit, and pay all my bills online. If I need cash, there are ATMs everywhere. The *only* check I write any more is to my landlady, and I'm trying to figure out an electronic way around that. I might actually have to go to the bank and sign up for a bill payer service! LOL!!!
I work a semi-retail job where the counter traffic is often less than $10 a head, and we very rarely see cash any more.
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02/12/2012 08:35:46 AM · #23 |
As a matter of principle I have around 500 Norwegian crowns in my wallet when I'm out and about. Amongst other things, it means I don't have to turn round and ask someone else if they have cash in the (increasingly rare) event of it being wanted. Of course, being a principle, it is built on ideological sand. As a matter of fact, I seldom have that cash im my wallet, but even so...
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02/12/2012 09:49:55 AM · #24 |
| I've been noticing the occasional Coke vending machine that accepts credit cards, too. I tried it once as a novelty, figuring my wife would flip when she saw this on the credit card statement. |
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02/12/2012 10:20:07 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by alanfreed:
I've been noticing the occasional Coke vending machine that accepts credit cards, too. I tried it once as a novelty, figuring my wife would flip when she saw this on the credit card statement. |
You're getting to the rub of the thing: when there's no more cash, how will we sneak the occasional guilty indulgence past our quartermasters? "Honey, what do you need cash FOR, anyway? Be honest with me; are you STILL buying Hershey bars at the 7-11?"
When cash is outlawed, only outlaws will have cash...
R.
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