Midland location among few Salvation Army sites accepting credit card payments

It’s a familiar sight during the holiday season — the Salvation Army bell ringers and their red kettles. Outside department stores, drug stores and your local grocer, you may see the familiar red donation bucket and a chilled volunteer, faithfully jingling a bell, silently requesting your contribution. But this year, those red buckets may be accompanied by something else: a credit card processing machine. At the Midland Mall and several other locations nationwide, the Salvation Army is collecting and processing credit card payments. The Midland Mall location collected as much as $90 on Black Friday, said Jim Heffel, a Freeland resident who was manning the red kettle for the Salvation Army on behalf of the Kiwassee Kiwanis.

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