ATMs have been dispensing cash and debit and credit cards have been working, so Cypriots have not faced any immediate cash shortage for day-to-day living.
"I think if we just use cash and debit cards, it's a much better idea, " he said.
Costco already restricts some credit card use, but watch for a large chain to offer discounts for cash and debit purchases.
Start off with Visa ( V), which is the beneficiary of a trend away from cash toward debit and credit cards, especially overseas.
Identity theft and rising fees for accepting credit cards will take their toll on retailers, who will be asking more often for cash and debit cards.
Costco (nasdaq: COST - news - people ) already restricts some credit card use, but watch for a large chain to offer discounts for cash and debit purchases.
Victoria Richardson, 42, from Hove, East Sussex, was burgled last week, losing an iPhone, a Nintendo DS games console, a handbag containing a purse, cash and debit cards and a black Toshiba laptop.
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"We are out there to help customers and they want cash -- debit cards aren't working everywhere, some places you need cash, " Hassell said.
The money is to be used for British personnel and their families if cash machines and debit cards stop working.
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The thief also stole cash and a debit card, a tan purse, a small square white cigarette box decorated with flowers, and a lighter.
Most of the First World is content to choose between cash and a debit card, and the proliferation of handsets and stores make such an undertaking a long way off.
Write down everything you buy, whether you use cash, check, debit card or credit card.
Wal-Mart avoids these price controls because its new product is not called a debit or cash card.
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As yet, no national standards exist for magnetic stripes and account numbering, so almost all of the 300m or so cards in China are used only as cash-machine or debit cards in the issuing bank's home city.
Last week, the Senate passed an amendment sponsored by Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) that could reduce interchange fees that credit card processors charge to merchants and allow stores to give customers discounts for paying with cash, check or debit cards.
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Coastal Federal Credit Union and Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union are essentially paying members cash back to use their debit cards.
It also includes a debit card with cash back features.
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Visitors who previously had to travel with wads of cash can soon look forward to merchants accepting credit and debit cards and new ATMs making it possible to take out cash as needed.
He's observed how his two Harvard-educated daughters prefer to swipe their debit cards than carry cash.
Write down everything you spend (cash, check, credit or debit) in a blank check register, or a pocket notebook.
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In terms of value, more is now spent on debit cards alone than in cash.
He expects American Express to gain from the increase in card usage across the globe as consumers and businesses shift from traditional forms of payment, such as cash and checks, to credit and debit cards.
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Debit cards have been quickly replacing cash and checks as more people prefer the convenience of paying with a card.
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In June 2012, 16 million customers of RBS, NatWest and Ulster bank had difficulties with cash withdrawals, phone and online banking and debit cards, which the bank blamed on a software update.
Cash is becoming scarcer in a world of debit cards and virtual goods, and peeling off a fresh ten-dollar bill may not be the best way to teach kids the age-old value of a dollar anymore.
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It holds our plastic money (credit and debit cards and coupons), our cash, sometimes a few coins, business cards, important phone numbers and our personal ID cards.
While some consumers likely needed cash to replace transactions typically made with credit cards or debit cards, many people curtailed their usual activities.
Unlike a credit or debit card, cheque, anything like that, cash was anonymous.
The Social Security Administration has a program called Direct Express, a debit card that can be used for purchases and cash withdrawals without a bank account.
Beenz offers a kind of loyalty programme resembling an air-miles scheme, and is now planning to provide debit cards allowing users to convert their beenz into cash.
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