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Why is it that when you are checking out at a grocery store and use a debit/credit card, you have to press the debit/credit button, then tell the cashier if it’s debit or credit as well? Why do they have a debit/credit button on the customer’s card swiper, if the cashier has to ask anyway? Couldn’t they just eliminate one of them? The store where my wife works part time doesn’t do both. She just asks if it’s credit or debit, you don’t have to press anything on the swiper thing. Grocery store checkout lines would be a lot more user friendly if you didn’t have to do both.

And the really annoying thing is when it says “press yes or no” so you press the big red button, but that cancels the whole transaction. You were supposed to press the unlabeled button the arrow was pointing at, apparently. Target has good swipers I think. Except that they are at the end of the counter. So you have to walk all the way down to the end of the aisle and turn a little to use it. Very strange.