Reuters reports that Smith’s Food and Drug Stores, a division of Kroger, will stop accepting Visa cards due to high interchange fees. The change will go into effect on April 3rd. This is in addition to the Foods Co division of Kroger which already implemented that change.
Apparently these chains are landing up with higher fees than the other Kroger brands (maybe more people with rewards credit cards?) so Kroger decided to just stop accepting Visa there. Surprising that they haven’t reached some agreement.
It’s interesting to see retailers put their foot down. Hopefully, this doesn’t hurt rewards credit cards in the long run.
