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Salvation Army goes hi-tech with credit card scanners on signature red kettles

November 19th, 2008

No cash for the red kettles outside North Texas stores this holiday season?

No problem. A dozen local Salvation Army kettles are going hi-tech.

For the first time, all that empty-pocketed shoppers have to do is swipe their credit cards on scanning technology attached to some kettles.

“People say, ‘Hey I would put money in, but I don’t have any cash,’” said Pat Patey, spokesman for the Army’s DFW Metroplex Command. “They won’t have that excuse anymore.”

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