How ATMs Make Money

How ATMs Make Money There is a machine in the lobby of your grocery store, in the corner of the gas station you stopped at last week, in the back of the bar you went to on Friday night, and it exists for one purpose: to give you your own money. That's the whole job. You put in a card, you take out cash, the transaction is over in about fifteen seconds. And somewhere in those fifteen seconds, you get charged nearly five dollars.