This is true, checked out on Snopes, and got this email from my credit union:
We want you to know that some stores and businesses may begin charging you more when you use your credit card to make purchases.
Beginning January 27, stores and online businesses were given the ability to charge a “checkout fee” for every purchase consumers make when
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Basically, what we have is a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario.
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Honestly, I expect the stores I shop at to cover credit card fees as a cost of doing business. If coffee shops want to charge a fee, especially on small transactions, that's fine, because that's small enough to be a reasonable cash transaction. On the other hand, if I'm grocery shopping and spending $150 to $200 (typical in a weekly trip, since there are four of us and we eat a lot!) I want to be able to put that on a credit card. If Cub starts charging me a fee, then fuck them, I will shop at Rainbow instead. I am hoping that for the bulk of stores there will be massive consumer backlash if they try to charge us for our credit card
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VISA's policies continue to forbid such surcharges in most places outside the United States. Since I was poking around quickly and found the information on visa.com, I don't know what policies other cards have outside the U.S.
The interesting question for me, living in one of the states that doesn't allow those surcharges, is where transactions are considered to take place if I order something from another state to be delivered here. For example, would Lands' End be allowed to charge me for using a credit card? (I figure the charge for my Wiscon room goes under Wisconsin law, because I'm using it in Wisconsin.)
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