[jdmartin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Windmills', 'I') wonder if we'll see retailers of different kinds try to get rid of credit card sales in the future and only accept payments in cash, a bit of a reversal of past trends. There are a lot of middlemen that need to get stripped from the market.

[catbox]

This said it all for me, "Sales up, profit down".

[Joe0Bloggs]

Why anyone would accept credit card payment under such terms is beyond me.

Plenty of examples of cash discounts and credit card premiums here.

[advancedatheist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', ' ') Yet, would it be a better world if all of those people working in the local Quicki Mart spent their time trying to steal from me instead of sell to me? I can ignore the ads and the pitches, harder to ignore those folks who feel the need to take.

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cube', 'I') think this is more of a problem of "over-capacity" and not necessarily energy related.

IMHO there is an extreme over-capacity of retail. There are too many:
1) restaurants
2) gas stations
3) clothing stores
4) just about everything across the board.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jdmartin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Windmills', 'I') wonder if we'll see retailers of different kinds try to get rid of credit card sales in the future and only accept payments in cash, a bit of a reversal of past trends. There are a lot of middlemen that need to get stripped from the market.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('advancedatheist', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', ' ') Yet, would it be a better world if all of those people working in the local Quicki Mart spent their time trying to steal from me instead of sell to me? I can ignore the ads and the pitches, harder to ignore those folks who feel the need to take.

[pjd2]

I think this is where to post this, please move if needed.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/25/gaspri ... index.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he owner of Towne Market Mobil in this suburb north of Milwaukee shut down his pumps for 24 hours, hoping to start a movement aimed at convincing oil companies to lower their prices.

[vision-master]

Sounds like a boycott Wally World. As horse-shit a company WW is, the sheeple still flock there to get that cheap china crap.

[Twilight]

Those who will fail to adapt are so easy to spot.

[erb]

and from the staion manager

"chwartz called that "outrageous" and said even he can't fill up his SUV at that price.

"If it keeps going like this, my kids will never be able to afford to drive," said Schwartz, who has an 18-year-old son and 15-year-old daughter."


your right they wont drive

i told my sister in law that her 2 year old would probly never drive and she thought i was crazy

[strider3700]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('erb', '
')i told my sister in law that her 2 year old would probly never drive and she thought i was crazy

[jdmartin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')1st off. The station dosen't charge you 4% for using a card, the credit card company does. 2cd. Credit cards are evil. Period! Cut em up. NOW. If'n you don't have the cash, DON'T BUY! You are rasing prices for the cash & carry folk. We hate your kind!

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', 'Y')et, would it be a better world if all of those people working in the local Quicki Mart spent their time trying to steal from me instead of sell to me? I can ignore the ads and the pitches, harder to ignore those folks who feel the need to take.

[Blacksmith]

Well at least I'm not the only one who recognizes insanity.

"The whole world is crazy except you and me, and even you are a little crazy"

"Every man is a smith who forges his own happiness"

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jdmartin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')1st off. The station dosen't charge you 4% for using a card, the credit card company does. 2cd. Credit cards are evil. Period! Cut em up. NOW. If'n you don't have the cash, DON'T BUY! You are rasing prices for the cash & carry folk. We hate your kind!

[advancedatheist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', ' ')
I have a feeling this depends upon the part of the country that you live in. In my part of the world these jobs are not taken by illegals. They are taken by kids in High School, adults without any education beyond H.S. and the occasional retired man or woman. The occasional large dairy farm hires immigrants (though more hire the folks like I described above) and we still have a lot of Quiki Marts

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('advancedatheist', 'T')he quality of immigrants, determined by their culture, makes all the difference. If we could replace the entire illegal Mexican population in the U.S. with the entire population of Taiwan (both figures in the 20 million range), the Taiwanese would more than pay for themselves in a matter of years. Confucian culture works a lot better in the modern economy than the dysfunctional Counter-Reformation Spanish culture that got implanted in Mexico and other Latin American countries in the 16th Century. (Ironically this culture has largely disappeared in Spain, which now behaves like more efficient northern European countries.)

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('advancedatheist', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', ' ')
I have a feeling this depends upon the part of the country that you live in. In my part of the world these jobs are not taken by illegals. They are taken by kids in High School, adults without any education beyond H.S. and the occasional retired man or woman. The occasional large dairy farm hires immigrants (though more hire the folks like I described above) and we still have a lot of Quiki Marts

[jdmartin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')
Don't forget to use that "card" for Strarbucks coffee too!

Nice.........
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')d Yingling, incoming president of the American Bankers Association, tells FRONTLINE that revolvers are "the sweet spot" of the banking industry. This "sweet spot" continues to grow as the average credit card debt among American households has more than doubled over the past decade. Today, the average family owes roughly $8,000 on their credit cards. This debt has helped generate record profits for the credit card industry -- last year, more than $30 billion before taxes.