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Of course not. Whose credit card statement includes a listing of the individual items you purchased at a store during a particular transaction?


It's not in the statements that you received, it's a reciprocity agreement between retailers and CC companies to share the data by CC #

For example, CC companies could give you your itemized purchase history for Macy's on your statement, if they wanted to.


It is my understanding that most stores do not share that data, because they feel it is a significant commercial advantage.

Credit card companies have wanted itemized transactions for aaages (it's even part of the protocols they use) for fraud prevention, but very few merchants have agreed.


Not for SMBs, but major retailers share the information keyed of CC# as part of reciprocity agreements, including Amazon.




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