Originally Posted By: ponder
The system came back up late last night. Many travelers were stranded without gas or food.

The last time this happened a few months ago it was the 800 lines going down.

The customers who use credit cards not only pay a higher price for their products, they are also running a risk.

It is just a heads up on the value of cash.


I work for a large bank, we had no credit card issues and I was personally shopping and dining between 5 and 8 all on credit/debit cards, there was not major us outage.

My guess it the credit processor your store uses had a nationwide outage but not the visa network.