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{
"time": "2009-05-12 16:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Catherine Swift",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1503446\" data-originallang=\"en\">Well, there really isn't much choice. People mentioned earlier the notion that credit cards and debit cards have become an absolutely rock solid part of our payment system. You can't see ever going backwards, for all kinds of good reasons. And there are certainly benefits. Nobody denies that it's good not to have to handle cash. There are absolute benefits provided.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1503447\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have had some of our members protest. They wanted to do cash only sales. In some businesses that might be feasible, typically on small-ticket items and things like that. But it might be worth knowing that in the U.S. a number of years ago, when some of these trends first started happening there, Wal-Mart actually refused to accept MasterCard for a while as a protest. But even Wal-Mart , the most humongous retailer on the planet, had to go back and accept MasterCard. So what chance is some little guy on Main Street going to have?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1503446\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il n'y pas vraiment de choix. Des gens ont pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 auparavant que l'emploi des cartes de cr\u00e9dit et de d\u00e9bit est devenu un \u00e9l\u00e9ment incontournable de notre syst\u00e8me de paiement. Vous ne pouvez imaginer faire marche arri\u00e8re, pour toutes sortes de bonnes raisons. Et ces instruments de paiement offrent certainement des avantages. Personne ne conteste que ce soit une bonne chose de ne pas avoir \u00e0 transporter d'argent liquide. Cette solution offre r\u00e9ellement des avantages. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1503447\" data-originallang=\"en\">Certains de nos membres ont protest\u00e9. Ils veulent vendre uniquement en liquide. Il se peut que ce soit possible dans certains types d'entreprises, en particulier celles vendant de petits articles peu co\u00fbteux et des choses comme \u00e7a. Il peut s'av\u00e9rer utile de savoir que, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, il y a quelques ann\u00e9es, quand certaines de ces tendances ont commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 se manifester, Wal-Mart a refus\u00e9 d'accepter les cartes MasterCard pendant un certain temps en guise de protestation. Mais m\u00eame Wal-Mart, le plus gros commer\u00e7ant de d\u00e9tail sur la plan\u00e8te, a d\u00fb faire marche arri\u00e8re et accepter MasterCard. Que peut donc faire un petit commer\u00e7ant sur la rue principale?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/industry/40-2/16/catherine-swift-5/",
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"source_id": "2762152",
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