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Can i block my bank card from use at fast food outlets!!!

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  • tomtontom
    tomtontom Posts: 7,929 Forumite
    jenwhite wrote: »
    if it was that easy to use willpower there wouldn't be an obesity epidemic worldwide and illness directly related. people don't choose to be fat - fast food has made living healthy a lot harder than prior to the convenience food when we all had to cook fresh food.

    They really do.
  • You could get a personalised card and upload a photo of "VOID AT FAST FOOD OUTLETS" on it. I bet most will refuse to take the card lol

    With chip-and-pin the retailer won't even see the card - the customer puts it in the reader and types the PIN. It's not like the old days where the retailer had the card in front of them on the imprinting machine.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • reclusive46
    reclusive46 Posts: 2,698 Forumite
    It's not like the old days where the retailer had the card in front of them on the imprinting machine.

    Not that would matter. Retailers stopped checking cards on swipe and sign and imprinting transactions anyway. That was the main reason chip and pin was created. They still don't really check though, I have two foreign cards (one chip and signature and one swipe and sign) and its very rare for someone to check the signature.
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