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What is a department store? How do you know how a merchant has classified themselves with MC/Visa?

Posted by ty97 Oct 11 '10, 08:40

"This bonus offer only applies to net purchases made with your credit card during the promotional period at merchants that classify their merchant location for Visa/MasterCard in any of the following categories: grocery and specialty food stores, department stores, movie theaters, video rental stores. Purchases not eligible to receive bonus rewards include, but are not limited to, purchases made at superstores, warehouse clubs, discount stores, and their affiliates. Online and catalog purchases are not eligible to receive the bonus rewards unless the merchants have correctly identified and billed the transactions."

I'm guessing they are angling at Macy's, JC Penney, Nordstrom's, (Kohl's?) and excluding Wal-Mart, Target (?) but I'm not clear.

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Department stores don't have registers up front, only in the different departments? -- nm - Dano Oct 11, 08:52
Like Kohl's. Men's department, women's department. Or Sears: Houseware, clothing, etc. -- nm - oblique Oct 11, 08:43 4
- walmart has these classes as well, but is a discount retailer, not a dept store. -- nm - chromanda Oct 11, 08:49 3
  - I think Dano hits the nail on the head. It's a matter of form (location of registers) vs. function (discount retailer expanding into various spaces) -- nm - oblique Oct 11, 08:58
  - They should start calling themselves indie, or alt-department. -- nm - Reagen Oct 11, 08:50
  - this -- nm - Spawn Oct 11, 08:50

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