Visa and MasterCard allow cash discounts, which are offered most often by gas stations.
Cash discounts are offered by gas stations in certain parts of the country.
Customers who need more than point-of-sale cash discounts to inspire loyalty will find that car makers are trying to offer more value in other areas.
If this relationship with trade payable financing programs takes off and if manufacturers or the financing firms are incented by cash discounts for earlier payment then the manufacturing sector may gradually vacate the list of longest payment periods.
But factoring in cash discounts for the beer, snacks and other items sold inside the stores is "a lot more complicated, " partly because of the range of merchandise, says Fran Duskiewicz senior executive vice president of the chain.
You pair an Amex card with Twitter and get cash back or discounts on your card when you tweet hashtags that re-advertise the offer.
However, French shoppers were lured to the cash tills by discounts and there are mounting concerns that both corporate and consumer spending may now tail off in coming months.
Well, since the value provided to the merchant is so enormous, Facebook could provide substantial rewards (far beyond what you might get with any other card) in the form of cash back or discounts or reduced rates.
Until they came under antitrust attack three decades ago, they had rules forbidding discounts for cash.
Some machine operators will raise prices and offer 25-cent discounts for cash starting in January, he says.
Garcha adds that his assessment assumes no further major product introductions, and discounts offshore cash completely for distribution purposes.
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Most of us have come across gas stations advertising discounts on cash transactions at the pump vs. credit card transactions.
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Costco already restricts some credit card use, but watch for a large chain to offer discounts for cash and debit purchases.
At other times, discounts on cash purchases are limited to 3%.
The most basic weapons in the automotive loyalty wars are the cash "loyalty" discounts that car makers offer at various times, including at year-end and during end-of-summer clearance time.
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.
Rewards may include cash, points, products, discounts, or other non-monetary items.
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Maybe you know that it also allows merchants to offer consumers discounts for paying in cash because it is less costly to process than other payment types.
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All Dangdang can do is burn cash through ads of their own or discounts and neither is an effective long-term strategy.
Contractors may be just as tempted to offer discounts if you pay in cash and promise to keep quiet about it.
More merchants are expected to start offering discounts to customers who pay with cash.
In a peculiar twist, the rules permit merchants to offer discounts to customers who pay with cash.
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Chrysler Group LLC, usually a big promoter of discounts, is also tamping down its cash offers.
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Buyers shopping around can often have those discounts matched by rival makers offering "conquest cash" to pry customers out of their old brand.
For that to happen the big retail chains would have to start offering a sliding scale of discounts or other incentives to consumers at the cash register for using one card instead of another, or cash.
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Cornell looks for publicly traded subsidiaries that are trading at fat discounts to their offering prices and have discernible value, in cash, shareholders' equity or growth potential.
"Quiznos management has initiated cash-flow-improvement programs, such as lower food costs, reduced discounts and labor optimization, " Mr. MacDonald said in a statement last week.
Deep discounts, working with small traders and closing deals with briefcases of cash allows Tehran to dodge the international banking system and defang sanctions.
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