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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by Retric on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:37PM (#44612076)
Let’s be real, Chick-fil-A banning Visa would likely result in its bankruptcy.

Starting a holy card that doesn’t work at gas stations etc is an extremely uphill battle.

Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by cogman10 on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:49PM (#44612128)
> would likely result in its bankruptcy.

Maybe? Depends on how customers are sold on the mission. If it's sold as protecting children I could see a number of people ditching their cards.

> Starting a holy card that doesn’t work at gas stations etc is an extremely uphill battle.

True. It'd take a large amount of initial capital and would likely need a targeted and regional rollout with some nice incentives to the merchants.

Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by AlexandrB on Friday July 18, 2025 @11:25PM (#44612323)
Don't know about that. Costco banned Mastercard and they're doing fine.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by Retric on Saturday July 19, 2025 @12:49AM (#44612679)
They wouldn’t need to create a new payment processor if they could just swap to Mastercard. Thus it was also implicitly excluded by Chick-fil-A in their proposal.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by mango7283 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @08:02AM (#44614807)
I looked this up, they still accept visa. So not quite the same
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by aetherson on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:44PM (#44612110)
Yeah, 30 years ago this might've been able to get off the ground. Today? Not a prayer.
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by FpUser on Saturday July 19, 2025 @08:03AM (#44614809)
I use my debit card at gas stations