Alt text: Screenshot of a receipt showing payment over time of a $1.50 hotdog in four equal installments of $0.375 spread out every other week.
They should allow Pain in 4 for online subscriptions.
For example Netflix. Instead of paying 8€ a month you would pay €8 a month for 4 subscriptions.
Costco’s co-founder, Jim Sinegal
the amount of consumer goodwill that statement bought easily pays for any losses from the hotdogs. companies seem hellbent on torching their brand reputation for short-term gains these days. little gestures go a long way.
My bank finally approved us for a hotdog jumboloan! We sign tomorrow!
No interest?
Pay in 4 is usually zero interest, but they’ll stack heavy late fees if you miss it.
“why can’t we get a mortgage?”
“Well I bought a hot dog on a payment plan for a laugh, and I defaulted on a 38 cent payment”
“oh no”
Conversely, you can’t have a house, you have no credit.
Fine I just paid off a 1.50 loan for a hot dog.
Ok, now you can borrow 500k because you proved yourself responsible with $1.50
Reality isn’t too far off, back in the day I couldn’t get a loan because I had zero credit history, but then could get a mortgage after a few months of getting a credit card with like a 500 dollar credit limit.
Back in the day, one could get a credit history by being listed as an authorized user on someone elses card. One never needed physical possession of the card, nor needed to use it.
Still possible with AmEx, if I’m not mistaken, and in some cases can backdate your AAoA.
I have plenty of interest in hot dogs.
Ha ha! Phallic penis joke!
I read that in Phil Sebben’s voice.
Or it’s about bestiality.
The post nearly has a hundred upvotes I’m not the only one interested.
They generally don’t no.
They get commission from the stores (because quite likely they wouldn’t have made the sale if the option wasn’t available), and also late fees
Also data for advertising
That’s how you build up good credit
good job! a+ financial discipline!
How does it handle the half-penny? Does it round up or down, collect the remainder at the end, pull an Office Space, what?
The POS system at my bakery rounds up when it’s for a customer (getting half of a loaf of bread for example) and down when it calculates the 50% employee discount. That alone has a weirdly huge impact on my job satisfaction.
typical POS behavior
Off topic, but I will forever read it as “piece of shit” system lol
They really always are.
wait POS doesn’t mean piece of shit??
Tge issues with TLS is that they overlap.
POS
- point of sale
- piece of shit
- priate on starboard
Political science
Proof of stake
Position
It’s just a really common one
Proud of you!
Time to buy another one!
Hey! Whoa! Easy there big spender! Some of us are caked in debt here! We can’t just be buying hot dogs now all willy-nilly!
You are truly a legend to dedicate to the bit.
This is the beginning of the rest pf your life!
