New Info Shows Credit Cards Can Make You Fatter!
Well, it’s no news that credit cards and their many faces have made everything more convenient here in the US, but it is sorta news that having credit cards, debit cards and prepaid credit cards can actually contribute to making us fatter. Why? Well, of course this is a little hoaky to report on because it’s fairly obvious, but credit cards make it more likely that people will not pass up that restaurant and go home and make a healthier choice, or that fast food restaurant since all of them tend to take credit cards at this point, and you’ll order food from them instead of doing the harder thing which is either going to the grocery store to make your own food, or just not stopping and getting that extra food you need.
So, the problem is also that people not only stop at fast food restaurants more because they have credit cards, but also they tend to order more food that is more than likely not so good for them. Knowing that they are not parting with cash, and instead of putting it on credit is not a deterrent to ordering food as it was in the past, and with the fast pace of lifestyle we’ve all chosen to live, it’s way more convenient to swing through a drive through and pick up some grub than it is to go out and buy it and make it.
Before fast food restaurants tended to not accept credit cards because the transactions were a little too tricky to perform while still keeping things moving along as a “fast food” restaurant had to do. Also, many credit card companies charged fast food restaurants prohibitive fees to have the services allowed in the restaurant, and they weren’t able to offer this convenience to their customers because they couldn’t handle the costs for every transaction being so high in return for such a little bit of return money.
With the increased offerings of credit cards for bad credit as well, there are a lot more credit card companies offering credit cards to those that normally would not qualify for them, and this has been speculated as a contributing factor to the increase in ordering of foods and increase of large orders on credit at fast food joints as well.
