Bank fees increase on Valentine’s Day

WASHINGTON (AP) – While your heart fills with love this Valentine’s Day, your bank’s offers will swell with cash as it grabs a huge profit from each bouquet and box of chocolates you charge to your debit or credit card.
People will spend a record $19.7 billion on Valentine’s Day this year, estimates the National Retail Federation. Every time they swipe a card, the bank that issued that card charges the merchant or restaurant a “swipe fee” so huge that it raise