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Never sign up for a Walmart Mastercard with a cashier

This Yelp Review of the Surrey City Central Walmart demonstrates just why you should never ever sign up for a Walmart Mastercard when offered to you by the cashier in the checkout aisle.

  • You are already done with your shopping but they'll pressure you to buy even more.
  • There are apparently various promotions for a first-time sign-up that you have to use right away, and you may not have the time to adjust your shopping cart to take advantage of it; or you just don't need anything at the moment that would add up to the required amount.
  • You really want to just get the brochure and read it through first, especially if you really just care about the one-time sign-up promotions. Then you can properly understand the terms and conditions and ensure that you will indeed properly qualify.
  • And since these are one-time promotions, it's not really important exactly when you sign up for the Walmart Mastercard, especially if your current credit card already has comparable or superior benefits compared to what the Walmart Mastercard offers.
But they will probably ask if you have a Walmart Mastercard after they've rung in all your purchases, and with other shoppers waiting for the two of you to finally finish your transaction so they can get their turn to check out their shopping cart of groceries.

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