Square Is the Most Annoying Thing to Happen to NYC Dining in Years

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23. And I'm sure Square very carefully spells all this out to each customer, right?

These valuable tips for avoiding handing over a lot of your personal information to Square are nice, but how many people know about this? I'm not a moron, but maybe I am when it comes to Square. If my credit card company annoys me by selling off my information, I can go get another credit card. What is my choice when I'm standing at the point of sale and the Square is demanding my personal information and the retailer isn't equipped to handle cash? I guess I can just leave whatever I picked out to buy and walk out. THAT would be good for small businesses, many of which seemed to do okay before Square.

But yeah, to transact purchases in today's business environment, I need to have a smart phone that costs me $100 a month, an extra e-mail address just for receipts, an extra smart phone for another $25 each month that I use just for purchase transactions, because God forbid that small businesses actually cater to their customers and take into account all the costs in their business models. Which makes me a moron and a fool, I guess.