Embracing change

[Mike at Vauxhall]

Retail is changing, and I happily adapt and embrace those changes, but sometimes...

"That'll be £1.50, how are you paying?"

" Card."

" absolutely fine, " but in my head, 

" of course, you f*****g millennial"

.....it annoys me.

 

[marky11]

do.t take it under a fiver someone wanted 

key cap for 20p on card 

 

[Mike at Vauxhall]

I have no minimum. But do sell my caps at 50p each. ( discount to 30p for volume.)

[da miller]

if gregg's can take a card

for a sausage roll

what's the gripe

[petercoulson]

1 hour ago, da miller said:

if gregg's can take a card

for a sausage roll

what's the gripe

The gripe is what comes after one of their sausage rolls 

[Mike at Vauxhall]

I very much doubt super trendy millenials go to Gregg's.

[SteelCityShoes]

12 hours ago, da miller said:

if gregg's can take a card

for a sausage roll

what's the gripe

They probably pay less in card processing fees than you. If you pay next to nothing then great, but if you’re paying 50p then you can’t really let someone put £1 on a card

[Fast Fix Elgin]

16 hours ago, da miller said:

if gregg's can take a card

for a sausage roll

what's the gripe

Do you have any card company charges to deal with?

 

That's the Gripe

[da miller]

please note

debit cards no charge

sorry cost of call for transaction

transactions are charged as bundles by the banks

i.e. mon tues wed 30 transactions 35p 

fri sat sun 14 transactions 35p

if you are being charged for each transaction change provider and bank

[da miller]

sorry forgot to say

machine takes credit cards

minim £40 max £90  or 2transactions if over

[SteelCityShoes]

41 minutes ago, da miller said:

please note

debit cards no charge

sorry cost of call for transaction

transactions are charged as bundles by the banks

i.e. mon tues wed 30 transactions 35p 

fri sat sun 14 transactions 35p

if you are being charged for each transaction change provider and bank

You pay your bank once, you pay your terminal gateway provider per transaction, that’s how they make their money, usually around 20p-50p per transaction,  not much when they’re spending £50, but when it’s a 20p key cap it’s costing you money when they use a card

[da miller]

0 charge for

debit i ll send you a copy

[SteelCityShoes]

Who is that with?

[keithm]

Just apply a minimum charge and most will oblige, that's if you can't stomach the 1 in 50 customers that do it!  All part of customer service in my book

[hakeemz]

agree with keith and dave.. no charge regardless of amount..very rarely someone uses card for below £2. and i smile and accept it as part of business

[Fast Fix Elgin]

I can see the world population going cashless in the next 5-10 years

 

After the next global economic  reset

[SteelCityShoes]

I have no objections to going cashless as long as small business’ stop getting penalised. In the US they get grants to go cashless to subsidise the card charges. But for now, I’m going to keep saying no when I get asked if they can put a 20p key cap on American Express

[grahamparker]

We have no minimum on cards at all but we do not Accept American Express as there charges are ridiculous.

[Danny King]

Just add 25p to your goods to cover costs.. Then take cards for any amount.. happy customers and happy you if the buy  a few items..

[Flash]

On 8/8/2018 at 11:32 AM, Fast Fix Elgin said:

I can see the world population going cashless in the next 5-10 years

 

After the next global economic  reset

Ive been hearing this since credit cards were invented.

Just think about it, its already been tried in  two major cities, never lasted more than a few weeks,

Complete disaster.

[keyman]

5 hours ago, Flash said:

Ive been hearing this since credit cards were invented.

Just think about it, its already been tried in  two major cities, never lasted more than a few weeks,

Complete disaster.

Agreed. As long as there's self-employed people there'll be cash payments.

Remember when we were also once promised a "paperless office"? Then it became a requirement to start keeping additional hard-copy records (in secure storage, of course). "They" make the rules up as they go along.

[grahamparker]

10 hours ago, Flash said:

Ive been hearing this since credit cards were invented.

Just think about it, its already been tried in  two major cities, never lasted more than a few weeks,

Complete disaster.

We are now 65/70% cards the rest cash and it is moving more and more towards cards.

Yesterday i took £649.80 on cards and £72.50 cash.

some weeks we can take over £2500 in card payments and not even get £500 in cash.

[x minit uk]

7 hours ago, grahamparker said:

We are now 65/70% cards the rest cash and it is moving more and more towards cards.

Yesterday i took £649.80 on cards and £72.50 cash.

some weeks we can take over £2500 in card payments and not even get £500 in cash.

We are very quiet at the moment as well.

[Count Muppet]

20 minutes ago, x minit uk said:

We are very quiet at the moment as well.

Doesn’t look like a very friendly comment, or maybe I’m reading it wrong.

im sure he takes enough for a good living. If I had my own shop and took that much I’d have enough to pay someone else to do the work for me.

[Gray]

I think it was a tongue in cheek remark Count.