• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    They do verify immediately in many places. The cash register scans the check, extracts the bank routing and account numbers, and does an EFT transaction on the spot.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah. Then they hand the paper check back to you. (I haven’t written a check, or seen anyone write a check, at a store in many years, but that’s how it was working the last time I did see it.)