Yet another tax

Just walked into the movies to be told that they only take cash or credit card - no EFTPOS - despite the fact that they clearly have the facilities to do so. When I inquired what people without a credit card are supposed to do, I was informed there was a private autoteller across the room. When I inquired if that wasn't just a blatant way of extracting yet another $2 fee from people, there wasn't a satisfactory reply forthcoming. I instructed the young lady to place the charge against the credit card; and Reading could pay the merchant fee instead of me.

In a similar outrage I notice that McDonalds now doesn't require a signature OR PIN for transactions under $35! WTF, where does a retailer get off not doing the security checks that protect MY account. I will be contacting Westpac this afternoon to see what can be done to prevent this.