A Lending Tree survey found 25% of buy now, pay later users are funding grocery purchases with the loans, up from 14% in 2024.
  • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    Lol it’s true

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeway

    The point of the Safeway name was that the grocery operated exclusively on a cash-and-carry basis – it did not offer credit to customers, as American grocers traditionally had done. It was the “safe way” to buy food because a family could not get into debt via its grocery bill (as many families did at the time, a contributing cause of the Great Depression in the United States). Thus, the original slogan was: “Drive the Safeway. Buy the Safeway”.

    get into debt via its grocery bill (as many families did at the time, a contributing cause of the Great Depression in the United States).

    Oh boy here we go guys, Great Depression 2: electric billaloo!