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Originally Posted by Happinow
As for the checkbooks.......where I used to live, we wrote checks just about every time we went to the grocery store, the clothing store and any other store we visited. Once we wrote the first check at the grocery store, they had our info on file and we breezed right through even faster than swiping a credit card. Since living here, I've noticed that they seem to make it much more inconvenient to write checks. They have to take your license each time which In Turn holds up the line, making for some frustrated customers behind you. After writing only two checks at Publix, I decided it wasn't worth the time and wait to complete the transaction this way. Perhaps they should take a look at making it easier for customers to write checks. I personally know if the store implements different means of accepting the check then it will be more customer friendly.
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Where we're from (midwest) it was always a problem of copying ID/Drivers license numbers or store check-cashing card numbers when fiddling around with checks, and that is why Debit cards took hold so quickly and efficiently.
With debit card, the money is instantly taken out of the checking account, and by running it as "credit" thru the system, you have the protection of Mastercard or Visa against fraudulent use.
With debit and PIN number, or debit run as signed credit, there is no need to write checks and have cashiers fiddling around with hand copying ID numbers.
And about "people in a hurry" and "what's the hurry?".......Most of us have been working the last 40-50 years in jobs that required
productivity and customer service, which means working fast and efficiently as well as courteously.
I think it's not that we're "in a hurry" so much as it is our awareness of
productivity as employees or business managers/owners during decades of work, supervising employees, and ownership.