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[–] cm0002 116 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Elderly Man 2 minutes later: Spends 10 minutes writing a check

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Fosheze 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Alexstarfire 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, just gotta check with them first.

[–] kautau 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I am going to send you all to the cheque republic if you don't stop.

[–] saltesc 3 points 10 months ago

In the US they're weirdly still popular. And not for big one-off purchases either, normal stores and restaurants take them. It's like going back in time three or four decades.

[–] Raiderkev 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is this still a thing? I worked at a grocery store about 10 years ago, and towards the end of my tenure, they stopped taking checks. I'd imagine other chains did too. I haven't seen anyone write one while I've been in a checkout line in forever.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I worked at AutoZone 7 years ago, we had a scanner thing that'd just read the check numbers on the bottom and run it like a debit card without a pin.

I'd tell people to not fill out the check, cause it doesn't matter at all, it didn't read it, and I give the check right back anyway, it could even be used again if the dorks would stop filling them out for no reason.

Even after all my telling them before and while they filled them out, they'd be in such disbelief when I returned their check after 3 seconds. Some would even be angry for them wasting time filling it out when it didn't even matter. Like guy I told you multiple times, how could anyone get upset at me for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

In the UK they died with the cheque guarantee card.

I had to write software to print cheques on a slip printer about 20 years back. Had nobody ask for them since. I took that function away by accident a few years ago and nobody complained. They still make the printers, but they don't get used for cheques. More for prescriptions and other things that just need a small slip of paper that can't be trivially copied by a crackhead.

[–] WarlordSdocy 3 points 10 months ago

I worked at an Albertsons a couple years back for a summer and we still took checks. And there were definitely people who used them, although more often I think it was people who were using some kind of unemployment or other social programs. But yeah whenever it wasn't a check like that it was an older person who would write the check out once they saw the total.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Last time I was in the US, I was at a convenience store with a quick checkout - max 5 items. Then I saw that a couple was paying by check. Writing the check scanning it and verifying etc. took about 10 times as long as scanning the wares. Is this still a normal interaction?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's normal for a check transaction to take that long; it's hasn't been normal for people to be paying by check since the late 2000's, if not sooner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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