So there's this one McDonalds in northern Utah that I have on my boycott list (not that I have to worry anymore, having moved back to the East Coast). Just one McDonalds, and with, what I think, is good reason.
In the process of helping a friend (Chris) move from one city to another last year, I ended up with said friend riding home in the Jeep with me (hubby and friend's wife were elsewhere taking care of a few last-minute things). Chris and I were both feeling rather hungry after a 1-hour drive to the new apartment, 1 hour setting stuff up, and another 1-hour drive back to the first city. So we decide to swing by McDonalds because there was a conveniently-placed one and I'd been wanting some of their fries lately. Now, the way things were laid out, this McDonalds was right off the highway in the first town, next to a Wal-Mart Supercenter (which, incidentally, had its own McDonalds as the in-store restaurant).
We get to McD's and decide that since we're both paying with plastic, we'll just go inside and order at the counter instead of trying to go through the drive-through with two separate credit card purchases. So we go inside, and there's a very small line, if any. I decide on what I want first, and Chris lets me go ahead of him. So I order my meal (a few things off the dollar menu, I believe), and pull out my debit card, which I usually run as a credit card so I can just sign and not bother with my PIN number.
Cashier: There's a $.50 charge on debit transactions, Ma'am.
Me: Can't you just run it as a credit card?
Cashier: No. We don't take credit cards.
Me: Why not?
Cashier: McDonalds doesn't accept credit cards.
Me: (looks down at the card reader, with its "credit" button, then at the Redbox DVD rental signs, which say you can pay with debit or credit) McDonalds doesn't take credit cards?
Cashier: Nope. No McDonalds takes credit cards anymore.
Me: (thinking: what a load of BS) Well, I don't have cash or check on me, so just run it I guess.
So I pay an extra $.50 on my $2.14 bill just so I can eat. If I'd thought about it at the time, I'd have raised a stink or pointed out the signs or something, or gone to the McD's inside Wal-Mart, but I was tired and Chris was still waiting to order.
Speaking of which, he found out that, in addition to having to also pay $.50 to eat because he only had debit, he also had to pay $.16 for an empty cup for water. Every other McD's location I've been at has had plain styrofoam cups for water, which were free. ::eyeroll::
What gets me most was the cashier's insistence that no McDonalds would accept my card as credit. Not a week previously, the McD's inside Wal-Mart did it, and they've done it several times since. ::mutter::
In the process of helping a friend (Chris) move from one city to another last year, I ended up with said friend riding home in the Jeep with me (hubby and friend's wife were elsewhere taking care of a few last-minute things). Chris and I were both feeling rather hungry after a 1-hour drive to the new apartment, 1 hour setting stuff up, and another 1-hour drive back to the first city. So we decide to swing by McDonalds because there was a conveniently-placed one and I'd been wanting some of their fries lately. Now, the way things were laid out, this McDonalds was right off the highway in the first town, next to a Wal-Mart Supercenter (which, incidentally, had its own McDonalds as the in-store restaurant).
We get to McD's and decide that since we're both paying with plastic, we'll just go inside and order at the counter instead of trying to go through the drive-through with two separate credit card purchases. So we go inside, and there's a very small line, if any. I decide on what I want first, and Chris lets me go ahead of him. So I order my meal (a few things off the dollar menu, I believe), and pull out my debit card, which I usually run as a credit card so I can just sign and not bother with my PIN number.
Cashier: There's a $.50 charge on debit transactions, Ma'am.
Me: Can't you just run it as a credit card?
Cashier: No. We don't take credit cards.
Me: Why not?
Cashier: McDonalds doesn't accept credit cards.
Me: (looks down at the card reader, with its "credit" button, then at the Redbox DVD rental signs, which say you can pay with debit or credit) McDonalds doesn't take credit cards?
Cashier: Nope. No McDonalds takes credit cards anymore.
Me: (thinking: what a load of BS) Well, I don't have cash or check on me, so just run it I guess.
So I pay an extra $.50 on my $2.14 bill just so I can eat. If I'd thought about it at the time, I'd have raised a stink or pointed out the signs or something, or gone to the McD's inside Wal-Mart, but I was tired and Chris was still waiting to order.
Speaking of which, he found out that, in addition to having to also pay $.50 to eat because he only had debit, he also had to pay $.16 for an empty cup for water. Every other McD's location I've been at has had plain styrofoam cups for water, which were free. ::eyeroll::
What gets me most was the cashier's insistence that no McDonalds would accept my card as credit. Not a week previously, the McD's inside Wal-Mart did it, and they've done it several times since. ::mutter::
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