There has been a rapid decrease of payday lending stores through out the United States while a rapid increase of payday lending in other countries such as Australia, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, India, South Africa and many others which also include the South American Countries. The reason why payday loans are doing so poorly that is in normal small business owned franchise stores is because people have turned to other sources to get payday loans. With banks all over the country now offering a form of payday loans small payday loans stores have suffered tremendously. Some have also suffered due to the fact of greed with many of them having hidden fees making it hard for the customer to payback the loan and probably ending up in a debt cycle which has seen many of this customers complaining to the governor who in turn has gotten the stores closed down and some even kicked out of the city for good. States like New York have pretty much shut down all stores and states such as North Carolina have closed down the practicing of payday lending and most lenders were told to stop making new loans and collect only the principal amount of the existing loan without any interest and under these same terms where told to pay seven hundred thousand dollars to a non profit organization for relief.