I’ve heard of blaming one’s weight on a lot of things, but credit and debit cards? That was a new one for me and a theory reported at TheStreet.com that, when considered carefully, does seem to carry a lot of weight.
Now that restaurants, coffee shops, DoorDash, and every fast-food and restaurant app on earth accepts credit and debit cards for payment, what started out as convenient has become ultra-convenient and, for some, super safe—safer than carrying cash, an argument that I find almost hilarious. Carrying one’s debit card is tantamount to having the entire contents of a checking account and its companion overdraft savings account right there and available to spend on a whim. But I digress. Let’s get back to the subject at hand.
