Here's the issue, you walk into a store that you've been going to since you were a kid, pull out the payment card that you've been using since you were an adult, and they point you to a sign that says only Visa is accepted even though you bought something on interac a week before.
It's not about visa being exclusive to the Olympics, its about VISA being the only thing you can use to buy shit in your hometown. Basically, if you could buy a quaachi in the store then it was going to be a pain in the ass.
It's a piss off, people don't like to be forced to do things for arbitrary reasons.
This is pretty much exactly how I feel about services that suddenly require a FB or google account for signup. Or websites that insist on using Silverlight to stream video when HTML video or even flash or a .mpeg file would have sufficed.
But that didn't happen. He went to an Olympic stadium, probably one built just for this event. It's like complaining that only Coke products were for sale (which is also the case thanks to a giant Coca Cola sponsorship).
It's a lot easier to just settle for Coke instead of Pepsi (if you even have a preference) than it is to go to your bank and have them change your credit card type just for the olympics.
It's not about visa being exclusive to the Olympics, its about VISA being the only thing you can use to buy shit in your hometown. Basically, if you could buy a quaachi in the store then it was going to be a pain in the ass.
It's a piss off, people don't like to be forced to do things for arbitrary reasons.