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Home»For Buyers»Retail News»NRF Asks Judge to Reject Swipe Fee Settlement
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NRF Asks Judge to Reject Swipe Fee Settlement

PublisherBy PublisherMay 31, 2013Updated:February 3, 20232 Mins Read
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swipe feesThe National Retail Federation (NRF) and  20 retailers have asked a federal judge to reject a proposed settlement over credit card swipe fees. The organizations allege  it is an “evil” price fixing practice conducted by Visa and MasterCard, MultiChannel Merchant reports.

According to an article in Bloomberg Businessweek, Visa, MasterCard and other card companies agreed last July to settle a lawsuit brought by retailers that claimed card issuers conspired to fix the fees they charge stores for accepting credit cards. The proposed settlement was for $7.2 billion. While Visa called the settlement a “fair and reasonable compromise,” the NRF rejected the settlement because it includes a clause that banned retailers from filing future lawsuits over swipe fees.

The NRF states in court documents that the average swipe fee is currently about 2 percent, which is the percentage of the transaction taken by banks each time a consumer swipes a credit card to pay for a purchase. According to the NRF, it totals about $30 billion a year in the United States alone. NRF SVP and general counsel, Mallory Duncan, said the settlement “fails to address the price fixing that harms merchants and their customers, it takes away retailers’ legal rights to ever try again, and it offers virtually nothing in return. It should be tossed out of court as the failure that it is.”

“The settlement fails to address the core evil that motivated this class action and that continues to plague the industry: the outsized economic power of and the manipulation of interchange rates by Visa, MasterCard and their constituent banks,” court papers filed by the NRF said.

Twenty other retailers submitted declarations in the NRF court briefing including Neiman Marcus, Brooks Brothers, Talbots, The Gap, Tiffany & Co., Estee Lauder, Crate & Barrel, J. Crew, New York & Co., Express, Brookstone, rue21, Destination XL, and Pacific Sunwear.

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