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Target to stop accepting personal checks as form of payment (www.nbcchicago.com)
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[โ€“] cm0002 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because debit and credit use the same systems and machines. Check needs a whole different system and machine to process the transaction.

Who cares anyways, checks should have died LONG ago

[โ€“] Num10ck 2 points 4 months ago

a lot of companies that used to mail out checks now send one-time use credit cards. some of those are on paper instead of plastic