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Old 06-07-2024, 07:02 AM
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Originally Posted by La lamy View Post
I prefer paying with a card unless it's at a restaurant. It's so weird how they just take off out back with your card before returning. It seems the whole rest of the world brings a hand held computer that works the card and receipt at the table. I also always have some cash available for emergencies, like cards failing to work or city wide internet issues that renders cards useless. It happened to us up north and it was only cash transaction for 2-3 days.
I agree. A simple solution would be for the banks to require merchants to have a credit card machine at the table. I don't understand why this is not a bank requirement.