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Re:Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard by sdenton4 on Friday June 17, 2016 @01:04PM (#11923815)
Many of the chip enabled machines in the US I've seen are really slow; there local market has huge lines just after launch because the process was so much slower than the swipe.

The funny part is that this all works quite well in Canada. The chip and pin systems there are quick and completely painless. Send like the card companies in the US drug their feet for years, and then picked up some substandard contractors for implementations...

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Re:Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard by wvenable on Friday June 17, 2016 @01:30PM (#11924088)
It's been years of improvement in Canada and we started much earlier. Chip and PIN used to be noticeably slower (but I wouldn't call it slow) but now it's very fast. Tap is instantaneous.
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