Word: debits
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...next natural evolution in cashless payments, after credit cards and debit cards," says Robert Pons, co-founder of FreedomPay. "Consumers want to make cashless payments at fast-food restaurants, car washes, coffee shops, convenience stores and video stores--places where you typically cannot use a card." Merchants looking to speed up service and cut down on employee theft are salivating--as are credit-card companies, which have had a difficult time grabbing a share of $10-and-under purchases...
...cardiologist. HealthAllies provides a wide selection of discounted services not typically covered, from laser surgery and acupuncture to vision care and in-vitro fertilization. MyHealthBank, which has partnered with Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield to focus on small employers in the Northwest, hopes eventually to offer consumers a debit card to have their visits to the doctor automatically paid out of their accounts. In such a competitive market, says Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger, doctors will finally offer services that consumers really want, such as integrated teams to better treat chronic illnesses, which account for close to 80% of health...
...told the Washington Post that when Minch confessed to hitting Plunkett, the head detective stopped the interview cold, arrested him and erroneously told other police Minch had confessed to the killing. Meanwhile the detectives failed to notice that Plunkett's wallet was missing and that someone had used his debit card after he died. They had failed to run a routine check on Mesa's school records, even though he was the one to sound the alarm over Plunkett's disappearance. The Post story amounted to an accusation that a better investigation could have prevented Varner's murder. D.C. executive...
...Perks: Debit card...
...nation's largest retailers--Wal-Mart, Sears, Roebuck & Co., and the Limited among them--are suing Visa and MasterCard, saying they too were overcharged. The merchants will argue before a federal judge in Brooklyn that they are forced to accept and pay an artificially high fee on debit-card sales. They hope to wring $8.1 billion from the defendants in this class action--a number that would triple, if they win, under federal antitrust...