Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes
by Broken_Hippo on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:13AM
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I live in Norway, and cannot remember the last time my card wouldn't work - period. Not just with the reasons stated.
When I lived in the states and worked retail, your cash wouldn't be accepted at a lot of stores if the power was out (or if internet/phone lines caused the registers to fail). To complicate things, I worked in a pharmacy, so accepting cash for the medicine without it going through the system might have actually been illegal.
You have to remember to get it out of the ATM. I ran out of cash like a week or two ago and have been too lazy or forgetful to stop by an ATM to get it.
Not to mention to use an ATM you need a card already to begin with, might as well just pay with that card directly?
In last year, I have bailed out quite a few people stuck in the checkout lines because whatever hi tech form of payment, they were using, didn’t work and had no cash.