 We don't accept your stupid check, okay? More than likely, if you try to pay for your items at Target with a check after the 15th of the month... I assume you'll take a personal check. You'll hear this. Please, no personal checks. The company says because of extremely low volumes of checks being written by its customers, it's not going to accept them anymore. A GoBankingRates study found that almost half of Americans didn't write even one check last year. Christopher Cruz, CBS News.