re: #92 wrenchwench

I always try to get my customers to use a debit card if they’re going to use plastic. Costs the merchant much less. Those rewards programs are my enemy, and cause prices to rise everywhere credit cards are taken.

The trouble with debit cards is that they don’t have the same protections as credit cards, so if your debit card is compromised, the thieves get whatever is in the account it is attached to.

I tend to try to write checks to small businesses and use my CC at the chains.