Comments on: We might have an unhappy candy shop owner

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:40:50 +0000

Hi!
Yeah! That´s great! I worked for Caterina´s at LAX and there it is the same. The owner (***EDITED MBHUNTER***) is a jerk! She really puts preasure on her staff to get as much money out of the stores as possible! Actually I´ve got fired for taking a christmas holiday – although I had all my shifts covered by co-workers who needed the money from extra shifts! So there was no real reason for fireing me…
So I hope VISA presses a big charge on them!

So long,
Sandy

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:36:40 +0000

Shrug, as long as it’s reasonable and clearly marked somewhere (i.e. before I try to buy something), I don’t really mind. I see their point. Of course Visa doesn’t allow minimums, that would leave less fees for them.

If it’s after I sit down for a meal and my only choices are to buy more food, then I’d be annoyed.

Have you seen the rent that an airport charges it’s businesses? Chances are that is a small biz, just with high rent and matching high prices to pay for it.

Of course, I’ve also bought a Snickers bar on a credit card in an airport store before…

By: denon

denon — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:34:01 +0000

Another note to my post above. If you try to force the merchant’s hand, they’ll simply put another minimum in place – ie: minimum purchase 10lbs of candy. Do you really want them to force you to spend $10 in their store, just so you can get your citi bonus points?

By: denon

denon — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:19:39 +0000

Don’t fight back against the merchant – the only thing that’ll accomplish is convince the merchant to go to cash-based sales. As a business owner, I’m well aware of both sides. I also know that when a store doesn’t take CCs at all, the consumer rarely minds – they just break out some cash or a checkbook. This depends on the type of store, of course.

Who you want to “fight back” against, is VISA. Tell them their demands are unreasonable to merchants, and tell them to offer better rates through their processing houses. Lower processing fees benefits the merchant AND the consumer.

The *only* people who benefit from higher fees are processors and VISA.

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:40:38 +0000

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By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:10:36 +0000

I had a similar thing happen at a pizza shop — my order came to $9+ and the cashier told me I couldn’t use my card to pay for a purchase less than $10. I’d been there before and liked the place, so I threw in a bag of chips (closest, cheapest thing I could find) to push it over the limit.

That said, I would be ticked too if all I wanted was a bag of candy and a merchant told me I couldn’t buy it because I didn’t meet some arbitrary limit. That’s stupid. Good job for fightin’ back!

By: Ervin J

Ervin J — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:15:09 +0000

I can understand when a little mom&pop store has problems with credit card payments for small purchases, but I wouldn’t accept it from an overpriced airport shop, either.

So, in this case, good for you!

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:09:46 +0000

Good for you. I’m all about making merchants live up to their obligations.

By: ~Dawn

~Dawn — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:52:58 +0000

I am interested in the outcome on this, I am considering notifying other stores I have gone to tat do this