Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America's little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via your banking app, but come on - look how absolutely great it is to be European:

The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram

[Diagram of paper sizes as listed below]

ISO 216 A series papers formats

Et.

Instead, Americans prostrate themselves to bizarrely-named paper types of seemingly random size: Letter, Legal, Tabloid (Ledger) and all other types of sordid nonsense. We're not even going to include a picture because this is a family-friendly finance blog.

Source: Financial Times

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[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm in Australia and it's a mix. Some places add the surcharge to the bill and can use cc for as low as$1, some don't and don't accept payments that's less than 2 people's meals ( and also don't accept split bills).

But it's very very hard to find a place that's cash only. It comes to mind empanadas, so I got a laugh at the other reply about tamales.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I mean charging the vendor a processing fee, not the vendor charging the customer for the credit card fee. That’s actually illegal in the US, though businesses can offer a cash discount, they can’t charge fees for using cards if they accept them. When I ran my business our card handler charged 3. something percent on every transaction with card, higher for credit than debit.