Check Out Fees For Credit Cards?

Actually, yes.  January 27, 2013 marked a change in the way that retailers are allowed to handle credit card transactions.  Retailers now have the option of passing on swipe fees to consumers, which can be anywhere from 1.5% to 4.0% of the total purchase.

MSN Money rightly describes the impact on consumers: "In yet another example of how nobody seems to understand American consumers in the slightest, a settlement that went into effect on Sunday allows retailers to charge a "checkout fee" of up to 4% on credit card purchases to offset swipe fees charged by banks and credit card companies."
http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=f23dbce1-35e8-49ef-9d10-cebc45afeab0

This is yet another reason to consider The Cash Management Card, which is a personalized VISA Debit card.  Debit cards are exempt from these charges.  Just when we finally got used to being asked, "paper or plastic?", our new question will be "debit or credit?"

Choose debit.  Choose The Cash Management Card.