You are basically paying the credit card fees for not using a card. It is a protection racket. “It’d be a shame if you didn’t use our credit card and had to pay extra due to card processing fees”.
We should do what the EU did. Clamp card fees to a small value so that they can’t meaningfully offer customers rewards which creates this twisted incentive.
Or stores just make the customer pay (most of) the card fees. As you said lots of smaller stores do this and I’m more than happy to pay with debit.
You are basically paying the credit card fees for not using a card. It is a protection racket. “It’d be a shame if you didn’t use our credit card and had to pay extra due to card processing fees”.
We should do what the EU did. Clamp card fees to a small value so that they can’t meaningfully offer customers rewards which creates this twisted incentive.
Or stores just make the customer pay (most of) the card fees. As you said lots of smaller stores do this and I’m more than happy to pay with debit.