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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Arlington, Virginia
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
If the changes for Debit/Credit cards being charged an extra 3% on every purchase, expect to see checks make a comeback. Especially for things like groceries. Many stores already put a markup of ~3% on items to cover their losses from people using debit/credit cards... now they'll be getting that 3% straight to their pocket.
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
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Join Date: May 2004
Age: 46
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
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Like $10 for going over plus 2 dollars for each item. 1 item = 12 2 = 14 etc.. or maybe the first is free |
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Living Legend
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: PA
Age: 46
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
If I worked at a store, I'd be strict about it and make people leave my line. Of course, I'd probably be fired for what they call "poor customer service" even though I'd actually be providing excellent customer service for the others and applying store rules.
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Los Angeles
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
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if they were the only customer in my line, i would scan all their stuff really slow and take as long as i could until someone else came in behind them. one time this woman seriously came w a cart FULL, i told her move it along sister - but she said something like "come on, the store closes in 10 minutes" - it was closing soon but i didn't care. i scanned about 15 items then rang my bell/turned on my light like i needed a manager's help to proceed.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: PA
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
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Too bad you couldn't just flip your light off and walk away...just long enough for her to get in the proper lane.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Washington DC
Age: 38
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
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Hell, I might even help her out with her groceries.
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
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Yeah, the check writing gets me, but like I stated in the previous post, they treat checks just like they would debit cards or credit cards in the grocery stores I've been to. I've lost my debit card on a couple of occasions and had to pay with checks until the replacement card came back and the cashier told me you don't even have to fill out the check, just sign your name and their computer does the rest.
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
This is my new gear grinder!
The dysfunctional functioning alcoholic single mom next door to me. Her mom has been my neighbor for since I moved there. She is in her mid sixties; I help her out all the time because she is my neighbor and she is a single women living alone. So come early July she says her daughter (27) is moving back in with her son (4); same age as my son. Great my son needs a play mate at home. It was fine at first but she has totally taken advantage of the situation with us. Literally dropping him off and taking off. Last Saturday she asked if he could go to the pool with us; sure no problem (she will always ask in ear shot of the kids so if you say no they have a fit). This was noon we get back at 4 she is not around and her mom is no where to be found. It gets about 8:30 and her mom shows up so we shuttle him off to her; she was out and didn't realize her daughter was gone. The daughter as of this morning has still not shown up but has text her mom saying she needs sometime(she is on a bender I just know it). Most weeknights she drops him off to us and takes off saying she has a doctors appointment or some lame excuse; she is just going drinking. She is our best buddy when she has her son and wants to pawn him off but if it is a day his dad has him she can't remember our names. She has literally in the past walked right past my son when he has said hi to her; really? After the hours I have watched your kid and feed him you can't say hi to my son. On the rare occasion she does stay with us to watch him she is glued to her phone with the text messaging and facebook shit. She is there but not mentally. I am really stuck with this situation because the boys want to play together but there are times I can't handle him, my son and my 1 year old daughter all at the same time. It has also got to the point where he has gotten comfortable with us that we have to discipline him at times (most kids at first are afraid of other adults and tend to behave better than when with their parents).
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Hug Anne Spyder
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 20,577
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
Still my boss. Me and my coworkers have figured out his master plan: Teach all of us how to do everything in his old non-computer reliant methods, so he doesn't have to do anything.
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 22,378
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
Speaking of supermarkets, I really hate it when people that have no f'ing clue about using the self check out....USE THE SELF CHECK OUT.
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Living Legend
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: PA
Age: 46
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
They removed the self checkouts at the store I shop at because of theft. Idiot thieves.
Now I have to be behind the cart-full in express lane fools like you guys do.
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Living Legend
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: PA
Age: 46
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
New gear grinder...
Now I've been seeing a $1.00 charge anytime you your PIN on the debit card. I have always processed purchases as credit instead of debit, but a month or so ago I asked for cash back and ran it as debit. I saw a $1.00 "PIN use fee" deducted from my account. A few weeks later, I used an ATM for cash. I always use M&T Bank's ATMs because they have no surcharges, even if you don't have an account with them and are everywhere around here. Again, that "PIN use fee" despite my use of a fee-free ATM. I used to always use the "free" ATMs and cash back at registers to get cash without paying a fee. Now, the only way for me to get access to my own cash without paying a fee is going to be writing a check out to cash or making a withdrawl at my credit union at the counter, both inconvenient. I've always used my bank card as credit when swiping, so the only time I get nailed with this is when getting cash. My wife went to the grocery store and swiped the card as a debit card...got nailed with the $1.00 fee again! I've made sure she knows not to do that again. Thieves! For ATMs with a fee, you're going to get nailed twice on the same transaction. Double-dipping on a single transactions should be illegal, even if it's two different institutions.
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