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As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more US companies say retailers turning away their products
(www.reuters.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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Don't forget to stop using your credit cards! They're all American an take a percent of all transactions.
Yes, Interac debit is an alternative in many situations, and that's a Canadian company.
i don't get cashback on debit
Cashback is stealing from the poor to give to the rich.
I have a CC while being an EU citizen. Main reason is calamity while traveling, it's just accepted at so many places so it could bail me out. I still buy 99,99 % of my stuff debit though, I don't need most purchases ensured, also i don't like doing my finances one month behind, I like it one month ahead, so paying my CC bills after 30 days is a net negative for me.
Do I understand correctly that 'cashback' is the fact that if you return stuff, you get the refund cash and not wired to your account/digitally put back on the debit card? If so, can you explain the importance of that for your situation? If not, could you explain to me what 'cashback' means in this context?
No, cashback is literally a "use this credit card and we'll give you 1% of your money back as a reward" then they charge the vendor 3% to process the transaction.
but you can easily get more than 1%. You can easily get 4% for stuff like gas and groceries. It adds up to quite a bit over the course of a year
Yes and no, those rewards increase the prices charged by the retailer.
Then the credit card company's ban charging extra to cover that.
It's inherently a monopolistic exploit.
Oh, ok.. gosh... Thanks for explaining.
I'm not the person you were asking, but:
Source: https://www.ratehub.ca/blog/best-cash-back-credit-cards-in-canada/
Of course, they wouldn't be doing this if you weren't paying them at least the refunded amount somewhere else - through fees, or through people's average interest payments, or through price increases applied by the stores to cover the fees they pay to the credit card companies.
Are there no Canadian financial institutions capable of launching their own cards and payment processors? That seems like a pretty big issue if the US is still skimming money off of each Buy Canadian purchase made by any medium other than cash.
All the Canadian banks should start a joint venture for a Canadian credit card.
The banks do take a hefty cut of that transaction fee, and visa/mastercard get a smaller cut. But that's still a lot of money going to the US for no reason.
We do have Interac here in Canada which charges a few cents instead of a percent, and it's Canadian.