Even as financial institutions and retailers continue their fight over who pays for the debit card network, consumers continued to show the love for cards in general last month.
According to First Data's SpendTrend survey, consumers spent 8.5% more in card transactions in February 2011 than they did in February 2010.
The card processing network attributed some of the increase to rising gasoline prices, noting that average card ticket actually fell by 0.2% compared to February 2010, once gasoline prices were excluded.
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