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  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    20 hours ago

    There are only 4 credit card networks in the US, regardless of the credit card brand: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. Anecdotally Visa and Mastercard are by far the most commonly used and accepted, but I couldn’t tell you why, beyond it often being the default debit card issued by banks.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      18 hours ago

      I can offer a clue.

      Discover was Sears’ in-house charge/credit card. It got spun off by itself but a lot of companies never really started accepting Discover.

      American Express, their whole thing is exclusivity. It’s the card you use to pay at fancy places. They charge merchants more in service fees, so a lot of places just don’t do business with them.

      • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
        2·
        6 hours ago

        It’s funny to me that AMEX is supposed to be the fancy card considering that we accepted it at the rural Canadian grocery store I worked at as a teenager. We also accepted Discover.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          51 minutes ago

          Amex and Discover are ubiquitous too, at least in the US. I honestly don’t remember the last time I went somewhere that they weren’t accepted, but there was a couple weeks when Visa wasn’t accepted at a grocery store because I guess they were renegotiating their deal or something (local Kroger chain).

          My Discover card has foreign transaction fees, so I don’t check when I leave the country, and I mostly use my Visa since it does waive those fees.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        A really great gag in Futurama is that American Express survived 1000 years, but still no one accepts them for payment.