Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for September 12, 2025
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September 12, 2025: Thirty-five percent (35%) of voters have shopped at a business that offered a discount for paying cash. A Napolitan News Service national survey conducted by RMG Research found 59% say they have not.
The survey also found that 50% will avoid a business that charges a fee for using a credit card. Forty-two percent (42%) say they will shop as normal and pay the fee.
Methodology
The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on September 2-3, 2025. Fieldwork for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of Registered Voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.
Scott Rasmussen is the president of RMG Research, Inc. and founder of the Napolitan Institute.
Survey questions
Recently, have you shopped at any businesses that offered a discount for paying cash?
- 35%-Yes
- 59%-No
- 6%-Not sure
If a business charges a fee for using a credit card, do you generally avoid that business, or do you shop as normal and pay the fee?
- 50%-I avoid that business
- 42%-I shop as normal and pay the fee
- 8%-Not sure
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