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Customers are reporting credit-card payment outages nationwide at restaurants and stores across the US, including Chick-fil-A and Ikea
Market Insider ^ | 2/26/2020

Posted on 02/26/2021 1:58:54 PM PST by EBH

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To: SauronOfMordor

Doesn’t having a couple hundred dollars of cash qualify for you as a terrorist according to the globalists? Me too, always have cash on hand. At minimum, I always tip with cash.


41 posted on 02/26/2021 2:20:12 PM PST by teevolt
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Wow first job was at a full service gas station


42 posted on 02/26/2021 2:21:21 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: EBH

Just think of what it will look like in a cashless society .... you’ll not be able to buy anything if the system glitches and you won’t be able to buy anything without an approval from you betters.


43 posted on 02/26/2021 2:24:59 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: steve86

I used mine at Taco Bell earlier today.


44 posted on 02/26/2021 2:25:05 PM PST by libertylover (Many people who want to destroy us have bumper stickers that say: "Coexist".)
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To: OSHA

I’ve had the extraordinary experience of being a victim of debit card fraud THREE times in the last 17 months.

I do everything possible to protect my finances, am extremely private and am now paying for groceries with personal checks and using two credit cards for everything else.

I do pay my monthly bills via my checking account and routing numbers, however.

Wish I could figure out why I’ve been so vulnerable to this type of theft!!!


45 posted on 02/26/2021 2:25:39 PM PST by edie1960
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To: EBH

“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action’.”

― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger


46 posted on 02/26/2021 2:26:26 PM PST by dennisw
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To: EBH; Mears

“Dad taught me to always have at least enough cash in the glovebox for a tow truck. LOL.”

Wise man.

We’ve been near-totally convenienced out of cash.
Don’t recall when was the last time I mailed out a bill payment with a check in it; it’s all online, now.

Used to keep a raft o’cash on a strongbox at the house.
need to revive the practice, and stow a couple grand, but bankers track that crap above some pitifully small threshold.


47 posted on 02/26/2021 2:27:31 PM PST by HKMk23 (The days of my sojourn have been few and evil; I have not attained to the stature of my forebears.)
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To: RoseofTexas

Just happened to me at our local grocery store. Managers were able to accept credit and debit cards with little hand-held processors, though. The manager told me other stores in the chain were still only able to accept cash and they had lost a lot of money in sales today. I already had plenty of cash on me, but was relieved when I was able to get more at the bank’s ATM.


48 posted on 02/26/2021 2:27:57 PM PST by CatHerd (Not a newbie - lost my password)
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To: EBH

No problem with Visa at the grocery store in Pima Co., AZ, about an hour ago.


49 posted on 02/26/2021 2:28:31 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Cloverfarm
"Even out here in Hooterville ... it was down."

Might I recommend Mr Haney's Cash Advance Service. Slightly better rates than the mob.


50 posted on 02/26/2021 2:28:34 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: edie1960

When paying in a store you should always use your credit card. Credit cards offer fraud protection, but debit cards don’t and fraud can lead to bounced checks and rejected payments.
You can get good tips at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/new/ and read the WIKI.


51 posted on 02/26/2021 2:29:42 PM PST by Pol-92064
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To: Mopp4

“Cash only at McDonalds in N IL today at 1130a”

I hear ya. I was in Taco Bell here in Northern Virginia and all I had in my pocket was a bitcoin. They couldn’t make change so I had to buy 36,434 tacos.


52 posted on 02/26/2021 2:30:06 PM PST by KingLudd
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To: McGavin999
"I carry a $20 tucked away in my wallet for emergencies. I hide it behind one of my cards so. Won’t be tempted to spend it."

How long before that might buy one gallon of gas or the reverse of "no cash accepted?"

53 posted on 02/26/2021 2:30:29 PM PST by Truth29
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To: EBH

Debit card reader was down at McDonald’s earlier.
NO word on the ice cream machine.


54 posted on 02/26/2021 2:32:22 PM PST by SantosLHalper (Eat some bacon.No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.")
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To: EBH

Part of my survival preparations is to always keep cash on hand.
I have some PM’s but it is hard to barter with PM’s as most people don’t understand that a $50 dollar American Eagle gold coin is worth thousands of dollars and an American Eagle silver dollar is worth 30-40 times that amount.
Never give up CASH!


55 posted on 02/26/2021 2:32:46 PM PST by rellic
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To: Mr Rogers

Cash still works.


56 posted on 02/26/2021 2:33:35 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Truth29

If the want accept cards and won’t accept cash they must not be selling anything.


57 posted on 02/26/2021 2:34:00 PM PST by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: EBH

Just wait until the EBT cards crash...


58 posted on 02/26/2021 2:34:33 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: rellic

I keep a stash of junk silver. The point is you don’t ‘spend it’ you have to trade it in for the currency of the moment.


59 posted on 02/26/2021 2:35:24 PM PST by EBH (Deer in the headlights get killed)
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To: EBH

I wouldn’t know about Chick Fil-A, which I avoid like the AIDS virus.


60 posted on 02/26/2021 2:35:43 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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