I've had credit cards and checking accounts and ATM/bank cards since the early 1980's. We moved here only 3 years ago. I also lived in Florida in the late 1980's. My experience in The Villages has been the first time I have -ever- been charged a surcharge for the privilege of using a credit card to pay for anything other than gasoline at the pump. Gas at the pump usually cost a few cents more than cash, and at some point even that was made illegal in Connecticut. I think they've recently allowed it again.
The cost of doing business was always woven into the price of the product. Maybe it's just a Florida thing? We never had to pay a fee to pay our taxes by credit card til we came here. I'm thinking maybe next time my car registration is due for renewal I'll pay in person, with rolled pennies.
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