Ellwood Shreve/Chatham Daily News jpg, CD She is pictured with Chris Parker, who is getting the ribs ready. “I know the guy, so I’ll let you go and the next time you come back, you can pay me,” Elkhodr said.īy around noon, he had let five of his regular customers fill up with gas, taking their phone numbers instead with a promise to come back to pay later.Įlkhodr said sometime Esso’s system will go on the blink for a short time “but not like this.”Ĭhyan Doxtator, right, displays the Square Card Reader and tablet used through the Telus network that has enabled ribbers at Route 55 to have no problem accepting debit payments during Chatham Ribfest Friday while other ribbers were affected by the Rogers network outage. When he opened for business early Friday morning, he didn’t know the Rogers network outage was impacting Ontarians and people across the country.Įlkhodr said his first customer at the pumps told him there was some problem with the debit payment going through.
Luckily, Patterson knows Speed-D-Mart owner Hassan Elkhodr, who owns the business, so there were no issues returning home to grab some cash to pay for the petrol.įor Elkhodr, though, it’s been even more of a “hectic day.” “However, I went out to cut the lawn and wasn’t thinking about it and needed to fill up gas for the lawn mower, and here I am with no credit card on me,” he said after buying gas at Speed-D-Mart convenience store’s Esso pumps. Colin Patterson said he read Friday morning about the problems with the Rogers network and the ensuing issues with using debit and accessing some ATMs.
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