{"id":90785,"date":"2020-01-13T22:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/city-market-now-charging-for-cash-back\/"},"modified":"2020-01-13T22:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:45:34","slug":"city-market-now-charging-for-cash-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/city-market-now-charging-for-cash-back\/","title":{"rendered":"City Market now charging for cash back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=aa09057e-d99f-4d4e-8b93-7b2a76df1f0d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1542\" height=\"993\" alt=\"City Market has begun charging fees for getting cash back at checkout. However, the service remains free at Albertsons, Safeway and Walmart.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">City Market has begun charging fees for getting cash back at checkout. However, the service remains free at Albertsons, Safeway and Walmart.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>For folks looking to avoid paying for cash at ATMs, getting cash back at the grocery store has been a popular \u2013 and until recently \u2013 free option in Cortez and Durango.<\/p>\n<p>However, City Market, a division of The Kroger Co., began charging to get cash back with a debt card at checkout about a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Trowbridge, a spokeswoman with King Soopers\/City Market, said the cash-back fee was implemented across all City Market stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis service is very popular, and we process millions of transactions enterprise-wide per year. Unfortunately, we cannot continue to offer this service for free due to the high demand and processing\/labor costs,\u201d Trowbridge wrote in an email to <em>The Durango Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>City Market now charges 50 cents to receive between $1 and $100 on checkout, and $3.50 for between $100.01 and $300. The $3.50 fee is lowered to $3 if customers use their City Market value card.<\/p>\n<p>Three hundred dollars is the maximum amount that can be withdrawn in cash at City Market through the use of a debt card.<\/p>\n<p>Ryne Hayes, manager at Durango\u2019s Albertsons, said the store has no plans to start charging for cash back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re shopping at Albertsons, it\u2019s a service we provide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>An employee at Safeway in Cortez said the store does not charge for cash-back services, but declined to comment for a news article, saying responses had to come from the corporate office.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart also does not charge for cash back at checkout.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Bobbitt, a spokeswoman with Walmart, said it is a service the retailer provides to customers paying with debt cards, and she said she is unaware of any plan to begin charging for the service.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Service remains free at Safeway, Albertsons, Walmart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4093,28,29,500],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-90785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-consumer-issue","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-retail"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90785"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=90785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}