Police could care less. I haven’t called the police for anything in over 10 years. Its a waste time. A few months ago someone pulled up to one of our stores and stole 4 car signs right off the drivers cars. One of my daughters was running the store at time and called the police to " report the crime ". After sitting on hold for 45 minutes they told her " thats not our department "
We have never had a CC fraud issue with card present scenarios. Its all for delivery. Mostly online orders.
That is just nuts. Four car top signs would run well over a grand. A theft over $1,000 is a felony in most jurisdictions. Felonies are "not their department? Whose department would that be?
Cops around here are the same way… It sucks. Theft just isn’t something they seem to care about at all. They just deal with it way too often to even matter I guess. We had a few cars stolen over the last two years and nobody seemed to give a shit at all. Actual CARS, not car toppers!
Yes I did!! Just finished install yesterday! So we’re extremely fresh with it. They capabilities seem amazing. We’re just happy to process an order at this point because its so new to us. They anxiety of changing POS system is extremely high, everybody was in panic mod the first day. The good thing is the employees are responding positively to system and picking it up rather quickly.
Yes, that’s how they do it. We posted the address they were using all over the store to help catch them at the time of order. Worked fine for the a while until they moved to another address. The funny thing is one our drives took a picture of the the note I posted and put it up on some facebook neighborhood watch site. The criminals themselves saw the post and then emailed me saying that we were violating their civil rights. I told them to pay up or pound sand. I think we chased that group off. We haven’t gotten anything from them since March.
Cool, let me know if you need any help. I could almost be a tech person with them if this whole pizza thing doesn’t work out. I have 13 years experience tinkering with Speedline.
I saw a CC fraud case be handled by local police and the CC company, and it appears they had no intention of ever prosecuting the person. The police wouldn’t do anything.
Cash only is a huge red flag to the IRS no thank you.
I was for my first year, the amount of lost sales I had was astounding because of it.
We were for about the first 9-10 years. I don’t remember anymore what year we added CC but it was after a long time. When we added them 8-9 years ago they were about 25% of all sales. CC are now approaching 80% of all sales. I don’t see not accepting them as a viable alternative in today’s world.
Very true but such a shame. We added cards in about 2007 when we had a lot of growth in the area and many fast food places opened that accepted cards. People would call in an order and when they came to pick it up they would just walk out when they saw we don’t take cards. Now on a good day we are about 60% cards some days over 80%. All of the fees associated with cards, the time it takes for the customer to read the number, figure out the CCV code because it is mostly worn off and the occasional chargeback with no easy way to recoup your losses like there is with checks, I hate the system but it is forced upon us by customers. Cards consume time, take 10-15% of your take home pay from that transaction, make you wait 1-3 days to actually get your payment, and add absolutely nothing to the product.
