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Black Friday Panic at Macy's: People Report Credit Card System Outage (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Macy's might have celebrated an increase in share price on Black Friday, but it seems like the retailer will end the day with a lot of lost sales. Many of its customers recently took to Twitter to complain that its credit card machines are down, and that they can only pay with cash.
They WANT cash to disappear...what better way of seeing how many people still use cash, than have CC machines go down on black Friday? Once they are convinced the majority of people use cards instead of cash, they will outlaw the use of cash because the cards are "safer"...and they will also use an anti criminal element to get rid of cash, since a lot of illegal transactions are in cash. It's for your "safety". Once cash is gone, and everything is an electronic blip, the government can see ANYTHING you do. Don't think THIS can't happen. Walk into a fast food place, swipe for a double cheese burger, fries, shake, get rejected because your last government healthcare check up says your BMI was too high. Try to buy a new sports car, get rejected because you've had too many speeding tickets, or the car doesn't get good mileage. DON'T think it can't happen that if the government needs money, or the bank needs money, they just pull 1% of everyone's account. It's already happened in where? Greece?