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Why? It definitely can cut significantly into their profits to accept tons of small-dollar credit card transactions. Even the 3% (the rate varies) or so may be a sizable chuck of their profit margin. I sympathize with smaller merchants (e.g., mom & pop stores).
Here we have evolved so much that cash payments are due to a processing fee. Card transactions are always traceable while cash payments are not. There are many stores who don't accept cash at all anymore!
Places like this enforce minimum purchases with a card, those signs on the window would say it.
Most of the ones around here have POS (point of sale) terminals at the pumps. In NJ, an attendant has to pump it for you. I pretty much exclusively use my credit card for gas. It's the one regular purchase that I almost never use cash for. Some gas stations do charge extra for using a credit card, but most seem not to. Wawa doesn't, and I like to fill up at Wawa when practical.
Here we have evolved so much that cash payments are due to a processing fee. Card transactions are always traceable while cash payments are not. There are many stores who don't accept cash at all anymore!
Ugh. Who wants their spending to always be traceable? Cashless stores are a terrible idea.
Cash-only places are becoming increasingly rare. Some places on the boardwalks at various Jersey Shore points are cash-only. However, a surprising number accept cards nowadays.
I understand that some merchants in the US may actually require a credit card, and not a debit card. Car rental agencies may do this.
This is where it is different in the US. I remember the first time me & my partner went on holiday to America, we had to get a credit card to take with us before we went as the hotel needed one etc.. Seems the US is just very different...
Something else that's cash-only is gambling--e.g., lottery tickets.
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