During the roughly three years since the pandemic, small-business owners have struggled with higher labor costs, increasing rents, and inflation-driven spikes in the prices of supplies. But many ...

As part of the proposed settlement, the credit card companies will temporarily lower the swipe fees for merchants. But not everyone sees this as a satisfying end to a legal battle that stretched on ...

Running a restaurant has never been easy, especially when you start up a business like I did in the middle of the COVID pandemic. The challenges back then were tough, from supply chain disruptions to ...

Broadcast Retirement Network's Jeffrey Snyder discusses the impact of credit card 'swipe' fees on both restaurants (small businesses) and consumers with the National Restaurant Association's Brennan ...

Grocers pay a lower rate than other businesses and they tend to have more recurring customers, making them less likely to implement credit card surcharges. The convenience of swiping your credit card ...

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Although inflation has eased since peaking in 2022, retailers say that credit card swipe fees are not helping to lower inflation. The National Retail Federation sent a letter this week to the Senate ...

Many small businesses are breathing a bit easier as inflation has cooled and the race for workers slows. But consumers’ steady embrace of credit cards is taking a growing bite out of their margins.

A proposal is moving through the Kansas Legislature that would ban credit card networks from applying fees to sales taxes and tips. If passed, the measure would unlock immediate savings for the ...

Data suggests that fees charged by banks and card networks were more than 25% higher than other estimates. "These outrageous fees drive up the price of almost everything consumers buy, and addressing ...

The Witcher 3 is one of the best-selling and most acclaimed video games of all time, yet for all the countless play-hours that have been poured into its narratives and subsystems, there’s one in ...