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Happy New Year
dsi1 wrote:
> On 1/3/2016 11:29 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 11:29:56 AM UTC-10, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>> On 1/3/2016 2:51 PM, graham wrote:
>>>> > On 03/01/2016 12:47 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>> >> On 1/1/2016 11:50 AM, Gregory Morrow wrote:
>>>> >>> Nancy Young wrote:
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>>>> >>>> You too, Leo, best wishes for 2016.
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> Got to start practicing writing the new year on checks, not that
>>>> >>>> I write many any more thanks to online banking.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Was in the grocery line the other day, and someone was actually
>>>> >>> writing a *check*!
>>>> >> > They were middle - aged, not "old" ;-) Something I hadn't seen
>>>> for
>>>> >> ages,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Just once in a while, you see that check come out. For some reason
>>>> >> it's
>>>> >> usually when there's been some other holdup that makes you even
>>>> >> take note how someone's paying.
>>>> >>
>>>> > I've noticed that a large % of the elderly now pay by card.
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>>>> I generally don't notice, so odds are they're paying by card here,
>>>> too. It took me a while, but I finally convinced my mother to
>>>> carry a credit card in case she gets into a jam. She still doesn't
>>>> use it. I haven't asked her how she pays for groceries.
>>>>
>>>> nancy
>>>
>>> I was surprised to see a small notice on the door of a local market
>>> chain
>>> saying they would no longer accept checks in 2016. OTOH, I don't see any
>>> horse and buggy's in their parking lot either so I guess it shouldn't be
>>> too surprising.
>>>
>>> Personally, I like payments in check because I don't have to pay the
>>> processing fees. Then again, I don't have lines of people in a hurry to
>>> fork over some dough and get the hell out.
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>> The supermarkets I use don't take checks either. I can't remember the
>> last
>> one I wrote out. I always use my debit card.
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> What I'd rather do is they give me the total and I blink my eyeball
> twice and the amount get credited to their account in .005 microseconds.
> That would be cool. In fact, I'd rather just fill my cart and walk out
> the door without interacting with any humans at all. This can be done
> with carts with built-in RFID scanners and NFC capabilities. Hopefully,
> we'll get that before I die. 
Man, you have a heckuva bucket list!
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