On Thursday, 22 August 2019, Paul Allen wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 13:09, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > > > In British English the term used is Cashback. > > > I can confirm that. I'm not sure, but I think it's only possible to get > cashback if you make > a purchase. But that could just be a policy of some stores, or I could be > completely wrong > (I've never tried to get cashback without making a purchase). > > Its never been something I have thought of tagging, just an option we > > assume to be available at supermarkets. > > > > And convenience stores, such as Spar (my local Spar doesn't charge for > cashback but I'm > told other shops in the franchise do). > > I don't think it would be sensible to tag nodes with the intention of > having them rendered > in some way, as in a large supermarket it would mean mapping every till. > Even my local > Spar has three tills, and it's not a big shop. Probably best as a property > on the shop > itself. > > Incidentally, I recall reading somewhere I cannot remember (and can > definitely not vouch > for the accuracy of the info) that cashback arose because banks charge a > fee on large(?) > shops depositing their takings, and that fee is a percentage of the size of > the deposit. > Various EPOS vendors decided they could give shops a cashback facility and > charge > a lower percentage of the transaction than the shop would pay a bank to > deposit it. If > this is all true, the shops aren't doing you a favour, they're doing > themselves a favour > by giving you an incentive to use them, doing themselves a favour by > reducing the > fee they pay the bank, and triple-dipping if they charge you for cashback. > Avoiding charges for banking cash is my understanding of the reason for shops offing this service too.
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