A couple of days ago, I forced one of my roommates, Kim, and boyfriend to to see Tangled with me at the dollar theater, since niether of them had seen it yet, and i loved the movie. When we went to buy tickets, we learned a very strange fact about the dollar theater: they don't take credit cards. Sure we all had enough cash on us, but that was very odd. They sell attachments for Iphones and blackberries and whatnot that can function as credit card scanners for the small businesses and for farmers markets, yet the movie theater did not have a machine that could take them. I mean, even some arcade game machines now have credit card readers attached to the coin slots.
But the fact that such an establishment didn't speaks very much for it patrons. They are expecting people to spend under $20 there, and expect them to only have cash. Which to me says they are expecting the people to not be able to afford a credit card, and therefore don't even bother to offer. It seems like they were just crippling their business. Its not like they even had an ATM machine nearby.
The only time i had ever encountered something like this was at a tiny 2 room movie theater while going to see a midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show, and tickets were $10 flat. They at least had an ATM around the corner, and an open McDonalds withint walking distance.
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