It was supposed to annoy Steve, not you. Sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brock Landers
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It was supposed to annoy Steve, not you. Sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brock Landers
There are tons of people, especially in the mountains, who function on a strictly cash basis for many reasons.
https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb22-...ity%20deposits.
remember, before the kiosks? standing in line at costco food court?
it was always a few people long. Sometimes you'd wait ten minutes just to make the order. Then there was more time to get the food.
Here's the good news. Costco actually addressed it. And they fucking fixed it. It's awesome. You walk up, you order, a receipt gets printed, and a minute later someone calls your number.
Those people are working, too. You can tell they have a system. They'll batch stuff up, get shit out faster.
It's a really good effective system. A massive improvement. It's fucking awesome.
Most of the time, it works amazingly well. You know when it doesn't? When some asshole decides he's going to throw a wrench in it, take us back to the era of long lines, and try to order at the register with a human interaction. And it fucks with the entire system. Because they're not set up for it anymore.
Have you considered the benefits of posting to TGR or writing Costco a strongly-worded email while you wait?Quote:
Originally Posted by steve
If you do, I hope you'll allow me to suggest that you inform them that self-checkout registers commonly accept and dispense change in cash. Please incorporate the tone you've got going here, though. That's what they deserve for spending all that money and neglecting a simple cash reader.
Let's be real. If their not having a cash reader is what annoyed me, then that's what I would have posted in a thread called "shit that annoys you."
Cash is still king if you’re hiding out, don’t want to be tracked, or completely off-grid.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Now it's always bad enough when a place doesn't take cash to begin with, but don't get me started on when they try and make you use some goddam app to even place the order at all! People who make It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia evidently feel our pain on this one. One of the best episodes of the season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzb355qT8RI
I have seriously been there. Perhaps we all have.
I read the comments. That was annoying.
Dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
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I have tons of cash stashed all overQuote:
Originally Posted by johnnyg82
litterally in coffee cans and between pages of books and in different safes
when the shit hits the fan your debit card credit card and bank are all worthless
seriously
You think cash will be accepted then? I’m hoarding cans of pork and beans.Quote:
Originally Posted by fastfred
Ammo will be the lingua franca.Quote:
Originally Posted by Supermoon
I was going to say there are ways to pay now that are not cash, check, or credit card such as Google and Apple Pay. I'm assuming you can link those directly to a bank account, but I guess I don't know for sure. If that's the case then "some people don't qualify for a credit card" doesn't hold much water.
king soopers used to annoy me in this way. they didn't take applepay, but they were happy to take krogerpay. fuck you king soopers.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
about a year ago they came to their senses and fixed it. they no longer annoy me and now i shop at king soopers again.
I'm generally pretty tolerant of the check-writing crowd - they're usually a thousand years old and are probably dealing with all sorts of "got-left-behind" shit already...Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
What's really annoying is when they wait until all their shit has been scanned, then they suddenly act like they've been taken by surprise and start rooting around in their purse to try to find their checkbook.
FFS - you know you're going to need a check - get that shit pre-filled out so all you gotta do it write in the amount. You've been using those checks for 845 years - this isn't some new procedure for you.
:nonono2:
@ Steve: How did you find out they fixed it?
It’s not just credit cards. There’s a large segment of people who are fully unbanked.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
What's your address again?Quote:
Originally Posted by fastfred
A couple weeks ago I moved $100k in cash from my Moms apartment to a bank so she can be earning 4-5% percent in a HYS account. It was stored in a safe the size of a small briefcase, so easy to steal the whole thing and break the lock wherever you feel comfortable. Driving to the bank I felt nervous as hell, ha.
Holy shit. Well, at least it wasn't in her mattress. Is your mom a retired mid level street dealer?Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
Chuckle.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
don't worry I got 10 thousand rounds of ammo tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Supermoon
10 five gallon pails of ready to eat food I bought on the internet for when it goes down
this prepper is ready man
Apple and Google pay run through card networks. Need a debit or credit card. So, probably need to be banked.
I got money all overQuote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
just hit up the old man for a dispersment yesterday
I like getting 100k scribbled out checks in the mail
Everyone wants to be fred, until they get sick of lugging the supplemental 02 around.
Shit I hateQuote:
Originally Posted by riser4
Been having a rough few days cranked it to just under 3L been hovering around 85 to 88% might need to keep shit posting on tgr or check into the hospital death is a bitch https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b2c8508d06.jpg
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my wife told me.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
when my brother died in 2020 (cancer) my father and I went through his place and cleaned everything out. He had stashes of cash around the house, about $10g worth, that he told my father about and were retrieved before dying. But he had forgotten about a couple of them. I found a couple of thousand dollars in 100s in places like a wallet in a nightstand - that he apparently didn't even remember. Nobody had idea what he planned to do with all that cash. He always had hourly jobs working at supermarkets and fast food, but his day to day stuff was normal: bank account, credit and debit cards, etc, like the rest of us.
Buh? What's going on Fred?Quote:
Originally Posted by fastfred
Keep on fighting the good fight, Fred. If shit posting is what gets you through it, please keep doing itQuote:
Originally Posted by fastfred
85 O2 sat while on 3L of O2? Go to the damn hospital already. Damn, dude
all normal for me 12 hrs a day on the o2
no panic
spent a couple weeks in south america came back and shits a bit janky
the health care world is trying to rename congesitve heart failure so it doesn't sound so tragic
that's without the o2 96 to 97% with o2Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
trying to decide if I head to target to check out milfs or go skiing this afternoon
Skiing is way cheaper. But you got the cash.Quote:
Originally Posted by fastfred
Can't do both?Quote:
Originally Posted by fastfred
Fred heading to Target to check out the MILFs:Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
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Fred, maybe you should move somewhere where there's more air in the air. How about Wisconsin? It seems to have worked for Harry. You and Harry can hang out on the island and scope the ladies boating by.
Bankers told me it's common that boomers are scared of banks, and a lot took out even more money as the country closed in 2020 due to COVIDQuote:
Originally Posted by riser4
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Originally Posted by ötzi
yep, now how's that hypertension?Quote:
Originally Posted by steve
That's what bitcoin is for. And it annoys the fuck out of me that Costco won't take it at the food court.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnyg82
Bartles and Jaymes have gone really casual latelyQuote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
I thought it was Iceman and Old Goat.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter