hdsrob

@hdsrob@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been in the POS business for 25 years, and deal with the credit card side a lot.

  A very large part of this is POS companies often have a relationship with the credit card processor (or are owned by a processor), and make a lot of money from the processing fees. The higher the fee on the processing account, the more they make.

  So they convince the merchant (restaurant or store) that they can have a free system by passing the cost to the customer. Often times they are just waiving the monthly subscription fee, but some will also give the merchant free hardware as well (with a multi year contract).

  Then they jack up the fees on the processing side: Since the merchant no longer has to pay the 2.5% - 3% fee that they were paying before, they allow the credit card / POS company to charge them 3% - 4%, and then pass it to the customer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple of states currently disallow it (NY or NJ, and one more IIRC). In those places you’re more likely to find cash discounting in place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting Taco Bell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might see if “Shop and Deliver” orders are available in your area (Should be under “Preferences” in the app). We tend to do more shopping than food orders, and tend to make more in our area (and there’s no waiting for shitty restaurants). If I could turn off food delivery and just do shopping I would.

  It can be smaller trips like Walgreens or CVS , lots of Dollar General, and even larger stores (with larger orders) like Target, Food Lion, or Aldi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting Taco Bell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And when they’re not stealing tips, they’re paying the lowest base on good tipping orders.

  15 mile delivery with a really good tip? … $2 base pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  because then I can use it on my phone my tablet my computer and have access to all of my tabs as access to all of my searches everything between the three devices.

  You can do that with Firefox. If you use Android you can also run uBlock in the mobile version of Firefox, which is why I’ll never use Chrome again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I default to Subscribed/New, but many of the subs I was in on Reddit don’t have active communities here, so I only see a handful of new posts a day. A couple of times a week I switch to All/Hot or All/Active as a way to find new communities, or just see what’s going on outside of my tiny bubble.