ALERT - SCAMMERS & THIEVES. if you don't speak Spanish THEY WILL RIP YOU OFF. What awful human beings. We felt safe seeing grandma behind the counter, it came across as a family run business. I am olive skinned & brown eyed, so I fit in OK .. took a few items to the counter & the daughter spoke to me in Spanish .. when she realized my blue eyed husband was behind me speaking to me in English .. EVERYTHING changed. all of a sudden their credit card reader was no longer working (even-though we just saw one person before us use it, it still had blinking lights) they figured out we did not have any pesos since we asked them if they had an ATM .. then we were told they take American $$$ - however, they made up their own exchange rate.
The absolute worts thing they did was sold us SIM cards (chip) for our 2 phones ... we had been told in US to make sure we activate the chip/SIM card & add data to it, activate it in store to make sure it is working & valid. We did, the young lady that sold us 7 days of unlimited 5G data actually charged us $20 for 2 chips then only activated it for the minimum 2 hr data use which was $0.20 cents worth and pocketed the difference. The sad part was that we went downtown for our 1st dinner, everything worked OK until we need to order an UBER or taxi .. nothing was working & we got stranded in a new country & environment. Mexicans are wonderful loving caring folks .. however, there are a few that are frigging evil & money hungry scum.
This was NOT limited to just this OXXO store .. we were buying several items totaling approx. $30US from another OXXO store only to be told credit card reader was not working but they take American $$$ .. as we left everything on the counter & began to walk out credit card reader magically started to work again. read more