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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by dudesss@piefed.ca to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
 

Now that Moneris sold to USA, which sells machines you use to pay via Debit, how do you plan on paying in-store?

Are you guys planning on using cash? How do you hell do you manage so much cash? Card is just so much easier. Especially when its comes to cents.

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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cash isn't that hard.

People have been using cash for a helluva lot longer that they have been using cards.

And having some cash on me has been very handy when the card machines are down (which has happened a few times a year at one store or another)

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I used to get paid in cash, paid rent in cash, and made major purchases with cash. The whole point of having a bank account is so that you don't need to carry all your cash. Now that money is digital banks are just value extractors.

when the card machines

Like that one national outage couple years back.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Like that one national outage couple years back.

Like the server failure at my grocery store last month.

And like the communications cable cut at my local gas station a few months before.

It happens far more often than you might think.