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Re:For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame by stass on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:22PM (#16179760)
I have not seen a single gas station in California that does not accept credit or debit cards for 10 years, let alone in the Bay Area. If they do exist, it’s most certainly a tiny minority.
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Re:For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame by nostrademons on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:29PM (#16179843)
Some of the ARCOs, Alliances, and other small labels are cash/debit only, and their prices are typically $0.20/gal less because of it. You're right, though, they're a tiny minority. All the majors (Chevron/Shell/Valero/76) take credit cards, and you won't have trouble finding one.
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Re:For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame by 0800 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:48PM (#16180045)
In China, even the beggars accept cards and cryptocurrency. In South-America, street vendors accept cards.

FinTech revolution is happening in China, not so much the US/SV.

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Re:For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame by jxramos on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:08PM (#16180268)
I'd have to see this on YouTube by several independent sources. Sounds pretty wild, when living standards rise so high the definition of "poverty" becomes more and more absurd.
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Re:For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame by qiqing on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:28PM (#16182184)
I haven't seen a beggar accept cryptocurrency (yet), but I've seen them accept mobile payments. Along with informal farm vendors (e.g., guy on the corner with a bag of oranges on his shoulder) accepting mobile payments.
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Re:For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame by Zarath on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:51PM (#16180081)
WeChat and Alipay yes, but cards and cryptocurrency?
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Re:For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame by sidlls on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:25PM (#16179793)
The AM/PMs I've seen in the peninsula take debit cards and cash only. There's one debit card station to serve all the pumps.
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Re:For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame by cardiffspaceman on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:50PM (#16180071)
Re: SV is so backward.

My AM/PM here in San Diego, Calif, has debit card acceptance at each pump.

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Re:For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame by DrScump on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:52PM (#16182379) 

  The AM/PMs
I suspect those gas stations are actually Arco.
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