"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2014-10-18 12:54 PM, sf wrote:
>
>>>> It's still common to shop with cash here... in fact many shops
>>>> discourage card payments for small purchases under £10, because the
>>>> card transaction fee they pay erodes their profit margin.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It may erode their profit margin but OTOH, it may be a sale they would
>>> otherwise not have made. I was in a coffee shop one day last week and a
>>> guy paid for a cup of coffee to go with his credit card.
>>>
>> It was probably a debit card.
>>
>
> You are probably wrong. If he had said that he was putting it on his debit
> card I would have said that he was putting it on his debit card. He said
> he was paying with Visa.
>

many debit cards are Visa branded.