In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Chris B wrote:
On 14/11/2017 10:16, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 23:31:42 +0000, Bill wrote:



In theory, you should never let your card out of your hand. But there
are some smaller retailers where it's "arranged" that the cashier has
to take your card to put in the machine.


I've heard this advice many times but its not only "smaller retailers"
it is "every" restaurant chain in the US that disappears with your card
for 5 minutes when making up the final payments slip.

A local pub/restaurant takes your card from you when you arrive. Seems
that is getting common.

Has been for many years if you want to run a tab.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England