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Mastercard Faces Retailer Backlash Over Installment Payments
- Fast-food retailers, gas stations have opted out of service
- Firm was ‘deliberate in enabling another seamless’ way to pay
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Mastercard Inc. is facing pushback from retailers over a new product that allows customers to pay off their purchases in installments.
The payments giant has begun telling merchants and their banks that it will charge retailers 3% of a purchase price each time a consumer opts to use the new program, according to people familiar with the matter. Retailers will be automatically enrolled for Mastercard’s new buy-now, pay-later service, though they will have a chance to opt out.