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Re:Google Pay by cmurf on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:08PM (#16101165)
Most of the rest of the world uses debit, and as a result enjoy very low transaction fees. Credit cards have much higher, and highly variable, transaction fees that cost merchants and thus all consumers, money.
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Re:Google Pay by criddell on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:47PM (#16101550)
If merchants gave me a discount for debit, I might use it more.
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Re:Google Pay by revelation on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:50PM (#16101593)
American credit card companies have lobbied successfully and now have blatantly anti-competitive most favored nation clauses that make it impossible for merchants to charge you anything other than the credit card price.
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Re:Google Pay by criddell on Monday January 08, 2018 @09:26PM (#16103012)
I think most of those rules have been thrown out in recent years. Visa and Mastercard don't do but I'm not sure about other groups.

There are gas stations near me that post a credit and a cash price.

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