Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 15, 2024

So I guess Nancy doesn’t know you can bypass the PIN and still run a debit card as credit, does she?

I’ve heard some stores have starting refusing to take checks, because it slows down checkout. I have not heard of any store taking a debit card and not a credit card. Just have Luann pay with her phone and refresh her bank balance later.

Most places I know don’t accept checks anymore. Accept debit cards and not credit cards? Never heard of such a place.

I suppose that was the only way to set up the punchline.

But somehow, it just doesn’t have any punch.

Some stores don’t take credit cards. Has to do with the fees the banks charge. Winco comes to mind. Debit or cash only

You know you’re old when. . .

you have a 70-something cartoonist who keeps telling the same old “I’m so olllllddd!” jokes over and over and over and over again and again. . .

Wild. I’ve never heard of anywhere that takes checks but not credit cards. I’d be boned.

What is wrong with CASH ?? Maybe some customers do not like cash because they have to keep track of what they spent. But I’ll stick with cash as long as they’ll take it. Unfortunately some businesses do not take cash – they want credit/debit cards, which gives them more information about how to contact you to offer thousands more purchasing opportunities from them and thousands of their affiliates.

What’s my debit card pin? Can’t remember a 4-digit number?

I still use checks for groceries they run it through I sign all done. I’ve seen too many friends and family get into trouble with credit cards.

Almost nobody uses cheques in the UK. We use contactless debit cards or Apple Pay, so the PIN number is only needed for large transactions.

That’s why I like the self-checkout, one line, multiple places to checkout. Unlike the registers with a clerk, the second I pick a register every single person in front of me becomes “Those people.” To watch people get in line at the other registers after I do, zip through their line and out the door while I haven’t moved is just the best use of my day.

well now we can see where Luann gets her ditziness…

Good ’ol cash. Th Federal government takes a valuable commodity like paper, prints something on it, and makes it nearly worthless.

Weird art today.

There’s one in every line…

When I happen to be behind a person who pays by check after their stuff is run up and they have to fill out all of it when they could have filled out most of it before completion, I’m glad I have my cell phone and can read the latest news and catch up!

I spotted some one for Les. She’s in the yellow sweater in th fourth picture

Checks? I haven’t seen one of those in decades.

What kind of business won’t accept credit cards?

As a long time friend who is in his early 70s is fond of saying, “There is still a Generation Gap. We’re on the other side of it now. And we’re STILL RIGHT!!”

I ordered at a local mall restaurant and since I didn’t have cash they refused my order and told me to find an ATM and come back cash in hand. First time in my long life this happened! Has anyone else encountered this and why?

Some places won’t take checks any more, too slow.

And rare to see a personal check from anyone under 70.

Just how far behind the times is the USA? I haven’t seen anyone pay by cheque in a shop for 20 years or more! I haven’t written any myself for 30+ years, and the only cheques I receive are refunds from the taxman (always welcome!).

Most places have self checkout. Love to look-up vegetables.

I deal with people like these at work all the time. Eventually, you start to get used to it.

Don’t forget the coupons…

I haven’t been in an ATM in years.

I’d be more worried that Nancy doesn’t know her own PIN number.

If you don’t pay with a credit card, you are leaving money on the table unless you get a discount. Of course, the liberals in congress want to get rid of cash back features.

And it’s the 15th,Nan…

If I start forgetting my 4-digit debit PIN, I may have to stay home and let someone take care of me.

Come on! It’s been a hour! Just go home already! Why isn’t she in a retirement home? UGH! The bars will close by the time she gets done!

Who takes debit cards but not credit cards? I realize credit transactions cost more, but in these parts anyways, you don’t see one without the other

Some businesses, such as utilities, offer online payment options which deducts funds from checking acccounts, for which there are no fees as opposed to using debit, credit or PayPal.

Accepts checks but not credit cards?? What kind of alternate universe does Mr Evans live in? Maybe he has an assistant do his shopping for him.

Serious question: are there retailers, let alone major ones, who take debit cards and checks but not credit cards?

That a normally intelligent woman is portrayed as being so stupid makes my fingernails hurt!

Debit Card but not a Credit Card?? They’re basically the same – one you prepay the other you post pay and both can show Rejected in an instant.

Really, who doesn’t take credit cards! Actually, many places won’t take a check, there are even places that won’t take cash. It has been more than a decade since I ever saw a place that wouldn’t take credit cards.

The store is being one of those stores.

I was behind a guy with an overflowing cart full of stuff. Finally done and couldn’t remember his PIN! Just left the store. I got tired of my cards being hacked and just use cash.

Hey.

That’s NOTHING.

I was in a store once that didn’t accept cash. (“Say WHAT?!!?”)

By the way.

The third person in line behind Luann.

The Lady with the yellow blouse, holding the yellow basket.

IMO, she looks interesting. ;-)

How sad to see Nancy become one of Those people, the ones that no one would want to have before of them. This help to remember that it can happen to anyone, no one is safe!

Never been to a buyers’ club, but fwiw, I have never, ever seen a man write a check at a grocery store.

The scary thing is some places don’t take checks anymore!

She earned it.

I want to be the counts-out-pennies guy.

Today’s story brought back a painful memory for me at Sam’s club. I used to do my grocery shopping once a month there. Once, after having all my food scanned and boxed and in the cart, I pulled my wallet out only to find my credit card missing with no way to pay. I momentarily panicked because I had no idea where the card was, but it suddenly flashed through my head that I had to make a copy of my card for some reason, and it was back home cozied on the copier entirely unaware that its absence was causing such angst in my life. I asked if I could leave my groceries in the cart, race back home, retrieve my card, return and then pay…which surprisingly I was allowed to do. Although there wasn’t much racing back and forth to home and back since during the time I had been in the store, Mother Nature decided to dump a healthy amount of snow outside making the roads very slick…..on the first day of Spring! Eventually I did get things paid for and I gave my credit card a stern talking to so that it would never forget to return to my wallet again.

Pin numbers

Why can’t you put both credit and debit on the same card? That’s quite usual in Europe.

We have one of those grocery stores that don’t take credit cards and I have never been able to understand why. They are the only merchant in town who won’t take a credit card.

How ’bout them millennials with their Apple Pay always flashing their phones to get paid. Perhaps they solved the issue?

What kind of place doesn’t take credit cards, but takes debit, cash and checks??

Not sure why the writers so often depict Luann’s parents as stupid. They seem to have real contempt for them.

We’ve all encountered people like that in the checkout lane.

Hey Lu — she’s paying for you, ya know

Nancy, maybe they’ll accept barter. Go out to the car and bring in your spare tire.

Or try living in the year 2024, maybe????!

Nancy no one forgets their pin number.

I refer to “those people” as Anchors. We’ve all been behind one many times.

Another example of how technology has destroyed the enjoyment of life rather than improve it

Property taxes are usually paid by check. Banks do not suggest that people pay with automatic payments from their accounts.

We pay EVERYTHING on our Visa & pay it in full every month… never pay interest. We earn so many points, we never have to pay for airfare & we travel a lot!

Seriously? You debit cards, but not credit cards? A supermarket in the 21st century?

She is always right in front of me on line.

This may be a “one of those people” jokes, but frankly I’d put the onus on the store itself for being “one of THOSE places.” What kind of huge corporate chain store doesn’t take credit cards?

Our utility companies have authorization to deduct charges from our bank account, Instacart charges my credit card and good old Amazon pretty much takes care of the rest. The only checks I write, with their approval, are to my cleaner, gardener and those out of date insurance companies who haven’t figured out a way for me to pay electronically. We keep cash for emergencies and it came in handy one time when a neighbor’s son had an accident and he needed cash to pay the tow truck driver. Times really have changed…

At least she didn’t have to dig and dig through her purse to find her checkbook

looks like Nancy shops (or uses an auto teller) very infrequently; she doesn’t even remember the pin# on her bank debit card??

They don’t take credit cards but do take just about everything else. Doesn’t make sense.

Interesting that the store does not take credit cards

I write checks, pay in cash, pay online, pay by debit card, and pay by credit card. It all depends on what I’m paying. I use my credit card the most, because it’s protected. Debit card theft can wipe out your account and you’re not protected. Credit cards protect you after the first 50, although mine have never charged me when my cards are compromised (it happens more than I’d like, but my bank catches it immediately! They contact me to verify anything suspicious.)

Some places get flustered when you use cash; today’s young cashiers don’t know how to count out change!

I try to bring a crossword magazine with me, or a novel, wherever I go, to have something to do when this happens. It’s not to be passive-aggressive, though I can’t deny that it doesn’t bother me if that’s the effect that ends up occuring.

“Yes, I’d like to sign up for a membership card. I’ll take some stamps as well, and can I get $300 back? I have coupons too. Lots of coupons. Some are for products you didn’t have, or they’re expired, but I’m going use this time to argue about it until you have to call over your manager. Also, do you do refi? I’d really like to refi my house. Can we do that before you finish checking out?”

~Every person in front of me in line at the grocery store, ever.

I was in line behind at older lady who wrote a check. The checkout person had to enter the check routing # into the system, but didn’t know which was the routing # on the check. Nor did I, nor did the lady behind me. But she googled it and solved the problem. Had to use the internet to use a check! We all thought it was pretty funny!!!!

You mean he’s done this kind of old joke before? Hmm…

I will admit that despite my age (71) I’m still cool and with it and get exasperated at the “old people” who do this sort of thing. The trouble is, these and many other “old people”, are younger than me! Hey, if I don’t act like one of the old people, I must not be one of the old people!

As for those who talk down to the rest of us because they “never use checks” or “don’t have any credit cards”, try surviving in our modern consumer society without them! There are plenty of payees (such as local government offices) that will only take checks or cash, and try making a reservation for a rental car or hotel room or buying an airline ticket without a credit card! On top of that, if you pay for a hotel room with a debit card, they may still do a “hold” on as much as $500 for the cleaning deposit. Sure, the hold gets cancelled later, but it could be several days and you don’t have access to those funds all that time. Using a credit card is vastly simpler in this case!

Some folks like holding up the line, all the attention is on them. I know people that are always this way!

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This seems a bit unrealistic, unless she’s shopping at the oldest store in town. Many stores are now refusing cash and only accept credit or debit cards, and most stores stopped accepting checks years ago.

BuyCo doesn’t take credit cards but takes checks?

Sorry to get political on the this beautiful Sunday evening, but they just tried to kill Trump again. Can someone explain this level of hate to me?

I like to pay with exact cash, digging around in the coin section of my wallet, for the pennies I need :)

Nope, the store is being one of ‘those stores’

Can’t remember which of two phone numbers it is? Try one… then the other.Or… only and always use one of them.Or… put an entry in your cell phone under the store name with the number used.

Two stereotypes make for a non funny strip. Your being “that young girl” Luann. Try saying something helpful (for once) rather than reminding mom of her age, and she *might return the favor and start treating you like less of a burden on the family budget/adult.

And I liked this one—-It could be me!

This still isn’t as bad as the couple I saw at Walmart at the self-serve register (the kind with the conveyor belt) buying their groceries with a large bag of loose change. plunk….plunk….plunk….plunk….plunk….

A cheque?From the 90s! I don’t think anyone in Australia has used a chequebook this century!

Why would debit card be good and credit cards not? Even more, why would they accept checks but not credit cards? With a credit card you’re sure you’re getting the money, but with a check it could be bad.

it used to be people who wrote checks and waited until the bill was fully rung up before they even started looking for their check book.

Monday strip is up on Arcamax and you guess it! We are still following Les another week

There’s somewhere that’ll still take checks but which won’t take credit cards? (Credit cards cost the merchant a fee, but checks are risky since they are essentially just a promissory note from the customer and there’s little recourse if they bounce.)

We should get rid of credit/debit cards and go back to cash/checks.

There is no store in the modern world that does not take credit cards but does take either debit cards or checks. It’s either cash only, or some combo of credit or Venmo/Apple Pay.

The only thing funny about this one is that there’s no editorial oversight to prevent such glaring mistakes from hitting print.

She’s not being “one of those people” she’s using tangible means. Something that is lost in today’s digital world.