Cash vs. credit? Stores see changes in the ways customers pay
Page 4 • Wednesday, February 25, 2015 • The Hammonton Gazette
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card here, instead of credit. Reward cards
kill you. they take a higher percentage out.
the rest of our customers do pay cash, we
don’t have any checks,” Cashan said.
the percentage of debit and credit card
purchases have increased, but not by a significant amount, throughout the years
Cashan has owned the coffee shop on Bellevue avenue.
“that might be attributed to since i first
started the average ticket price has gone up.
in the beginning if they were mostly just
buying a cup of coffee and small treat they
might have reached for cash, but now my
average ticket price has gone up and they
tend to reach for the credit. a lot of people
simply don’t carry cash anymore,” Cashan
said.
inferrera’s Market Owner Dorothy Orlandini said that customers of the market on
third Street are paying for items via credit
card at a significantly higher rate in recent
years. Credit cards have taken precedent
over cash at this local market as well.
“More and more people are using credit
cards than i have ever seen. i would say up
until three or four years ago, possibly, credit
cards were a small percentage of our sales.
today, they are a very, very, very large portion of our sales. i don’t know if it is that
people simply don’t have the money anymore, do