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No but some accept checks.

In the US they're weirdly still popular. And not for big one-off purchases either, normal stores and restaurants take them. It's like going back in time three or four decades.

I worked at AutoZone 7 years ago, we had a scanner thing that'd just read the check numbers on the bottom and run it like a debit card without a pin.

I'd tell people to not fill out the check, cause it doesn't matter at all, it didn't read it, and I give the check right back anyway, it could even be used again if the dorks would stop filling them out for no reason.

Even after all my telling them before and while they filled them out, they'd be in such disbelief when I returned their check after 3 seconds. Some would even be angry for them wasting time filling it out when it didn't even matter. Like guy I told you multiple times, how could anyone get upset at me for that.

In the UK they died with the cheque guarantee card.

I had to write software to print cheques on a slip printer about 20 years back. Had nobody ask for them since. I took that function away by accident a few years ago and nobody complained. They still make the printers, but they don't get used for cheques. More for prescriptions and other things that just need a small slip of paper that can't be trivially copied by a crackhead.

I worked at an Albertsons a couple years back for a summer and we still took checks. And there were definitely people who used them, although more often I think it was people who were using some kind of unemployment or other social programs. But yeah whenever it wasn't a check like that it was an older person who would write the check out once they saw the total.

It's normal for a check transaction to take that long; it's hasn't been normal for people to be paying by check since the late 2000's, if not sooner.

It honestly surprises me that many merchants still accept checks, given that they won't verify immediately.

There’s a pile of basket near the counter left there by the people I ranted about.

Two reasons against this:

• Usually people visit shops by car, without a backpack – at least where I live.

• Putting stuff in your backpack may require some more careful planning than just throwing it back into the basket temporarily, before you pack your backpack for real at the packing table. People do do that, blocking the end of the checkout. If the cashier doesn’t wait, you need to be careful not to have your items mixed up with the previous customer’s.