Originally Posted by
Julian Brennan
Funny thing happened today: getting ready for the Redbird => Serve switch so have to switch from pharmacy to grocery store for my VGC purchases. Now went to one of our local Ralph's and see this huge sign (more like a 8x11 paper printed in the back-office) saying "CASH only for all Visa, Mastercard, American Express prepaid products". This store was always a hit or miss depending on the cashier.
So I took the purple VGC, went to my favorite cashier and he rings me up with my BCP without even blinking... Very strange but I was happy. Anybody else seeing Ralph's cracking down on CC purchases?
was it a locally made sign or did it look like it was corporate?
btw, as i opined earlier this year, dominoes are starting to fall and i would not be surprised to see bb/serve fall as well. i'm sure you've noted same as i, the 'real' unbanked (the target audience for the product) load their everything with cash- they don't have bank accounts= they don't have debit cards. only ones with debit cards are us and drug dealers!
back on topic, c'mon kroger- you only run specials on gift cards when i'm out of the country- throw me a bone!