Do you still use check as a payment?

Why write up a check when you can easily use your debit card for the same effect? Debit/Check cards have almost totally replaced checks. Only a few places still take checks nowdays, too, and the ones I know are: Cub Foods, Target, Wal-Mart, and a few smaller businesses in my area, but that's about it. Many places will not take a personal check from you anymore.

I think at places like Wal-Mart, they run it through electronically so you don't even have to fill out all of it (and you end up getting your check back). I've written a check once or twice at Target because I forgot my debit card at home or in the car or something like that. I didn't hold up the line, though, because I'm able to write pretty quickly, and I already had the signature, date, and "pay to the order of.." lines filled out before I even got in the store.

You people are sure lucky, because walmart, accepts checks. Here in India, no establishments accepts checks and it is either the Debit or the Credit card.
Coming to your point, it always happens, there will be only person before you in the queue and either this person would be buying provisions for the next six months at a single go or else the approval for his credit card will take ages.It always happen when you are in a hurry.

I'm really sorry to read this post! People are in so much of a hurry in everything they do it's pathetic! Especially against an older person? I guess people don't think they will be old some day! LOL! Just wait ( God Willing) your turn will come! Paybacks are a Bi*ch! tdemex

We very rarely use our check book anymore. We've actually gone to paying the greatest majority of our bills online through the companies and as far as shopping in general, we use our debit card to pay for what we owe. There is one of our utility companies that doesn't allow a customer to pay online and it really drives me insane. I would much rather be able to go online and pay the bill when it is convenient to me than to have to go to the place and pay them in person.
The one exception to the rule about not writing checks when we are shopping is when we are buying a large ticket item that is more than our maximum daily limit for our debit card. In this situation, the only way that we can pay is by using the check book.

A lot of people in Trinidad do. My company pays everything with a cheque but I guess that's business.
Sure enough, loads of people use credit cards here but lots still write out cheques also.

I am the evil check writer. bwa ha ha

But I do try to speed things up by writing the payee and the date while I'm still in line, so all I have to write are the amounts and my signature. Doesn't take more than a minute.

Apparently speeding people through is important to some folks though. There was another discussion on the same lines except it was about people who count out the correct change...

payment check? hehe.. People using faster payment now like credit card, I don't that kind of payment now..

With the way the banks are set up now you don't have to write those checks.You get the debit card or some banks call it check card. I barely use checks. I surely don't use them when I am shopping. It takes way to long to write it out and then you have to wait to get it approved their the system that approves checks..I know we like to never got my mother in law to stop writing those checks. But she has and now using her debit card...

No, I don't. The problem for me was that I could never remember when I wrote a check to someone so I would overdraw my account especially when they didn't cash it right away. Now I use debit card or cash. Debit card is preferable for me because cash is hard to handle with my mobility impairment. With the card all I do is swipe it and the money comes out of my account right away so no one can forget to cash it for months and leave me screwed.

Nope, debit cards are the safest way to pay in my opinion