ALEXANDRIA, VA – More than 8,000 retail stores have signed up as part of the biggest consumer petition drive in American history. These convenience retailers and their customers are telling Congress, “It’s time to reform unfair credit/debit card swipe fees.” Now, NACS is empowering other retailers to join the campaign by visiting nacsonline.com/fightswipefees.
This fall, 7-Eleven franchisees delivered nearly 1.7 million customer signatures to Congress — the largest number of signatures collected for a public policy issue in history — urging congressional leaders to “stop unfair credit card fees.”
Beginning December 15, NACS is coordinating an unprecedented campaign to generate millions more signatures from convenience customers, encouraging Congress to reform unfair credit and debit card interchange, or “swipe,” fees.
The campaign, the second phase of the industry’s consumer petition campaign, was announced on October 21 at the NACS Show in Las Vegas and immediately generated the participation of thousands of stores throughout the country.
Both 7-Eleven CEO Joe DePinto and Alimentation Couche-Tard CEO Alain Bouchard, who led his company’s credit card interchange petition drive that collected 400,000-plus customer signatures at its Circle K stores, urged retailers to launch their own petition drive in their stores in a video introduced at the NACS Show.
NACS has made joining this effort easy. All of the materials retailers need to participate in the latest petition campaign are available free of charge at nacsonline.com/fightswipefees. These materials can be downloaded and sent to a local printer and then displayed in stores.
If you have not already signed up, visit nacsonline.com/fightswipefees today.