{"id":436292,"date":"2010-03-16T18:21:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003354"},"modified":"2010-03-16T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:28:14","slug":"walmart-adding-500-more-moneycenters-nationwide-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/436292","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Adding 500 More MoneyCenters Nationwide In 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While banks have spent the last two years consolidating and closing, it looks like people have been turning elsewhere for their financial services. Walmart — you might have heard of them — just opened up their 1,000th in-store MoneyCenter and have announced they’re rolling them out to 500 more locations before the end of 2010.<\/p>\n

That means that there will soon be MoneyCenters in around 40% of Walmart’s 3,763 locations.<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with MoneyCenters, it’s basically just a place where you can cash a check (for a minimum of $3), pay your bills (for a minimum of $.88) and make wire transfers (for a “great low fee,” though I’m sure some would differ on the meaning of “great”).<\/p>\n

It’s also where you can get yourself a Walmart MoneyCard. That’s the store’s pre-paid Visa debit card, which will cost you $3 to start, $3 a month in “maintenance fees,” and will cost you $3 each time you add money to the card, unless you’re cashing a check.<\/p>\n

Have you had any experiences with Walmart MoneyCenters or the MoneyCard? How did it compare to your experiences at banks and check cashing stores?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While banks have spent the last two years consolidating and closing, it looks like people have been turning elsewhere for their financial services. Walmart — you might have heard of them — just opened up their 1,000th in-store MoneyCenter and have announced they’re rolling them out to 500 more locations before the end of 2010. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}