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Re:Walmart Canada stops accepting Visa cards by thesimon on Sunday June 12, 2016 @08:07AM (#11887723)
Probably back in day the card used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_(debit_card)

A few years ago the pinguins took over (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x48eLs8tnJo) and basically every card in the UK is now either Visa/MasterCard/Amex and very few Maestro.

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Re:Walmart Canada stops accepting Visa cards by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday June 12, 2016 @10:46AM (#11888305)
Ah. That explains why when my Maestro card expired, it was replaced with a Visa Debit card.

The latter is more widely accepted for online shopping (only some merchants accept Maestro, whereas everyone accepts Visa and Visa Debit usually works there), so I was happy.

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