we don't take cheques any more

[GingerBiscuit]

We haven't for a year. This is the third time I've explained this to you.
I can't make 'an exception' in your case. I am not doing this to inconvenience you, it's company policy, and if I take your cheque I WILL BE FIRED. And I just don't like you- or anyone- enough to risk that right now, not while I'm saving for courses. Just can't risk being out of work.
Calling me a 'stupid girl' will change nothing, in fact it just makes me more 'jobsworth' and unyielding.
By the way- we don't take them any more cause more than half of them bounced. I bet yours would be one of them, too. Pay by card, cash, or leave without your stuff.
Oh, you're never shopping here again? GOOD.

[Jinxy]

People still use checks? I thought using one at the Vet's the other day was making me an antique, but I'd forgotten my card.

Jinxy who's messed up about her bank balance now

[ditchdj]

People still use checks? I thought using one at the Vet's the other day was making me an antique, but I'd forgotten my card.

Jinxy who's messed up about her bank balance now

YESSSSSSSS!!!! Freakin' every goddamn soccor mom around here uses them STILL!!!! I just wish the grocery stores around here would install those U-Scans so that I wouldn't be stuck behind them all in line.

[Swordsman422]

Excuse me for profanity.

I FUCKING HATE CHECKS! I can be quite polite until some anus-for-sweat-band pulls out his checkbook and begins to write one out. Worst ever was an who paid by check for an item under a dollar! Under a fucking DOLLAR! And thanks to bounces, we now have to not only enter che check data (APA, account #, check # and quantity) into the check machine, and then put drivers license #, expiration date, birth date and approval # on the check, but now we have to enter DL#, expiration date, state/province, APA, account #, check # and approval # in the register.

It takes 5 full minutes to ring up a check at the register. And it's even more fun when there is a line and at least one person waiting is in an awful hurry and starts to heckle the payer.

You're lucky. You don't have to take them anymore.

[cinema guy]

I got stuck in the queue behind a woman using a cheque to pay in the pound shop the other day. Grrr!

We stopped taking them at work a while ago. But a few weeks ago we had a brownie group in and their leader wanted to pay using the groups cheque, which had already been double signed. The leadere lady said she had rung up and been told that we take cheques (she had rund up to reserve seats, but I don't know who she spoke too). Anyway my team leader told me too take it. But later while cashing up, the manager tried to tell me off for it.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Swordsman, I once had a woman empty her wallet of ALL her cash, and then write me a check for the balance of her transaction: one dollar and thirty-eight cents.

[Andara Bledin]

Not 1.38.... 138 is an in-joke number for me. My cousin and his stoner friend started it, but it's disturbing to see how often it crops up.

^-.-^

[rdp78]

People still use checks? I thought using one at the Vet's the other day was making me an antique, but I'd forgotten my card.

Jinxy who's messed up about her bank balance now

My parents still use them at stores. I just use my check card but I do write checks for bills if needed.

[LadyAndreca]

I actually use checks...because I can use my employee discount with them, but not with debit. (I don't get it either.) It's not really a hassle to use them at my store, though, we just make sure the info's correct, let the check run through, enter license # if needed, and we're done.

[Racket_Man]

Swordsman, I once had a woman empty her wallet of ALL her cash, and then write me a check for the balance of her transaction: one dollar and thirty-eight cents.

I got you beat by a mile. when I stll worked for the gas station I had someone write a check for a pack of gum -----> $.32 as in 32 cents US YES 32 cents and I had to take it

at the pizza place I work at now we stopped taking (for the most part) checks about 2 years ago. the main reason the franchize compnay was loosing about $500,000 (half a million) a year in bounces and fees

[bean]

I actually use checks...because I can use my employee discount with them, but not with debit. (I don't get it either.) It's not really a hassle to use them at my store, though, we just make sure the info's correct, let the check run through, enter license # if needed, and we're done.

Ah yes, gotta love Target. They're still doing that crap? I worked for them in 2004.

To be honest, I still write checks at work - usually a few days before payday, because I can write them $50 over. Yeah, it's a red hot check, but it takes at least a week for them to clear when I write them at work, and by then I've gotten paid. I've even seen department managers doing this.

The only times I write checks are at work if it's a few days before payroll and I'm broke, paying credit card bills, or paying rent (landlord only takes checks, no credit cards). But at least when I write a check, I have everything filled in except the amount before I ever get to the register!

[Sofar]

Our relationship with checks is very simple, but a lot of the customers don't like to hear it. We'll take a check if you've made a genuine attempt to pay by another method and we know you. Unfortunately the customers don't like to hear, "We sometimes take checks." If you ask "Well, which is it? Do you take checks or don't you?" The answer is no. Don't say, "But I come here all the time!" because I'm here a little less than half the time and I ain't never seen you before. It's our decision whether we take checks or not, and seeing as I'm the cashier it's my decision, and I don't like the way you look and I think you're mean so no checks.

[cinema guy]

I run a wargames club, and still use cheques to pay the monthly bill for hire of the room we use. But personally, very, very rarely. I usually have to hunt around for where I've put my cheque book.

[JustADude]

At the PJs where I work, we take every credit card known to man, cash (of course) and checks. When we ask how they're paying, though, we only ask if they're paying with cash or credit card, because they're such a pain. The decision was handed down from on-high; We'll take a check if they ask, but we don't offer them the option.

[Catwoman2965]

We take checks, but not many people use them to pay for merchandise. We do get quite a few who will pay their store charge with a check. It's funny though; if a customers buys stuff, and pays by check, we have to see their license, and put all the info on it, but if they're just paying their bill, we don't.

I guess the co. feels if they have a store charge, if it bounces, they know where to find them!

Our registers run the check through, checking it, and then will either a. let it go through b. ask you to enter the info from their id, or c. make you call for an approval. I still don't know if its random, or if it only happens when there's a red flag, but i hate that since the customer gets pissy....and since we have no clue WHY it won't go through, we have no info to give them. I've been told "but i pay here by check all the time" and "i feel like a criminial" and "i can't understand why you have to do this" - guess what, neither do I! - like i have any control over whether i need an approval or not - i would much rather have it go through than have to call...and they will cuss you out, and demand to speak to the manager...who also can't do squat!