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Re: Target to stop accepting personal checks as form of payment
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2024, 01:45:33 AM »
Use that debit card Grammy. It's easier.

In the last ten years I have written about 20 checks.  Twelve of those were post-dated lease payment checks for a condo here.  If this goes the way of dial phones and tube TVs, I will not mourn.

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Re: Target to stop accepting personal checks as form of payment
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2024, 03:24:27 AM »
Many of the same people laughing at granny when it comes to checks become granny themselves when it comes to gas cars.

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Re: Target to stop accepting personal checks as form of payment
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2024, 01:05:35 PM »
You're in a busy store.  It's time to check out, and it seems like everyone decided to check out at the same time.  You scan the lines to see which is shortest, which have carts completely full vs mostly people with handbaskets or just a few items, and which have members of demographic groups that are just always slow.  You select a line with a clerk you've seen before and know is fast.

You're getting closer, maybe just a couple people in front of you now.  This lady has just been rung up.  Get off the phone.  Now, only now, she's fumbling in her handbag for her wallet with her debit cards - oh god, where is it, why are you just starting to get it out now?  But instead of a debit card, she pulls out a checkbook...

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Re: Target to stop accepting personal checks as form of payment
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2024, 01:30:37 PM »
I do not know if it is common anymore, but it used to be that places like Target had an automatic check printing thing where they insert the check and it prints out the name and then the amount and everything's good.
Eh, nevermind...

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Re: Target to stop accepting personal checks as form of payment
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2024, 03:14:19 PM »
Checks  ::)

Canada hasn't had a pennies for several years.
It stopped making cents.
And sense.

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Re: Target to stop accepting personal checks as form of payment
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2024, 10:47:53 PM »
You're in a busy store.  It's time to check out, and it seems like everyone decided to check out at the same time.  You scan the lines to see which is shortest, which have carts completely full vs mostly people with handbaskets or just a few items, and which have members of demographic groups that are just always slow.  You select a line with a clerk you've seen before and know is fast.

You're getting closer, maybe just a couple people in front of you now.  This lady has just been rung up.  Get off the phone.  Now, only now, she's fumbling in her handbag for her wallet with her debit cards - oh god, where is it, why are you just starting to get it out now?  But instead of a debit card, she pulls out a checkbook...

Standing in line in the supermarket checkout.  I have three items and cash in hand.

"I bet yer single!"  The words and the sour fragrance of booze spill over my shoulder.  I turn around, and the drunk is unsteadily eyeing the groceries I am holding: a carton of eggs, some cheese, and a loaf of bread.  I can't figure out how he determined that I am single just from these items, and I am just curious enough to overcome my resistance to having a conversation with a drunken person.  "How can you tell that?" I ask.  The drunk belches softly into his fist and replies, "Becaus' yer uglier 'n shit."

In front of me in the line is a fat, middle-aged ethnic lady.  She unloads her cart onto the belt.

The clerk rings up her stuff and announces the total.  At this, she swings a large purse off of her shoulder and begins to root around inside of it.

Everyone waits.

Eventually, she produces a smaller clasp purse.  She swings her bag back onto her shoulder, opens the clasp purse, and digs around inside of it.

Everyone waits.

There is a cruel moment of false hope as her hand springs loose from the purse.  It is not a debit card, or (god forbid) actual cash, but a set of coupons.  She swings her larger bag back onto the counter, deposits the purse in the bag, and then hands the coupons to the clerk.  She then watches as the clerk scans the coupons into the register.

That completed, her total is displayed.  She eyes it suspiciously, pausing, eyeing it again.  You can't be too sure that people aren't ripping you off these days.  Then she swings her bag back onto the counter and roots around for the purse that she had just seconds before, but is unable to find now.

Eventually, she comes up with the purse.   And now she must root around in the purse until she can find her debit card.  It's not a large purse; maybe the size of a burrito from Chipolete.  Nevertheless, she can't find it, and digs around in her purse looking for it.

Everyone waits.

The line, which once numbered three others behind her, has grown to double digits.  The clerk calls for backup.  The drunk emits a theatrical sigh and mutters something unintelligible. 

Finally, she locates her debit card, swipes it, and momentum seems to be building.

Until the clerk hands her the receipt.  Now she needs to put the receipt into another bag of some type.  My purchases have already been scanned while this is happening, and I simply want to move up and hand over my FUCKING CASH.  But no.  This woman methodically finds her receipt purse, tucks the receipt inside, slips the receipt purse into it's proper place, and finally swings the bag strap back onto her shoulder.

Everyone waits.

Now, she is going to pick up her goods and carry them out.

I live in a bring-your-own-bag state.  But apparently she does not want to waste the money for a bag.  No, she's a-gonna try and carry it out for herself.  And she proceeds to carry out various packing of items in her gigantic purse, while still standing at her position in the register queue.  A new checker arrives, who points at the drunk, and the rest of the line melts off towards a neighboring register.

How about you, PB?  Do you bring your own bags?  And how big is your purse?