Swipe Fees Driving Up School Costs | Irvine News

Presented by The Plant Daddies — rare specimen trees, living art, and hand-carved limestone vessels and fountains for extraordinary spaces. Showrooms in Los Angeles and Irvine. Listeners of Irvine News Today receive 10% off with code LANEWS10. theplantdaddies.com/lanews Back-to-school shopping just got pricier—thanks to swipe fees. Banks are charging merchants up to 4% on every credit card sale, and this year, those fees are costing families an extra $34 on school supplies, totaling $3.4 billion. Whether you pay with plastic or cash, you’re paying the price—because these fees are baked into the cost of everything. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/a81b77b94a6e84e0