• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    As for the latter, sometimes you have no other options, so you do things that you know are financially bad decisions because otherwise you starve. When I was younger I’d knowingly write bad checks at the grocery store because I needed food and couldn’t get it any other way. I’d have a paycheck coming in a few days, and knew I’d have to pay the fee, but it was that or starve. That’s not an option these days, since they verify checks immediately now.

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      8 days ago

      Only pizza is not a basic foodstuff.

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        Did you not understand the part that they probably don’t have other options? You can’t bounce a check at a grocery store anymore, and grocery stores don’t offer financing.