Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes
by stingraycharles on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:16PM
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There’s always that old book shop that doesn’t have the latest and greatest yet. And this type of support is typically enforced by contracts; eg if you buy some device that accepts MasterCard, they promise it will be supported for at least 10 years.
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I've been trying to shift to contactless payments recently, and my anecdotal experience has been the opposite: mom-and-pop shops usually have some kind of terminal from a dedicated payments company (verifone, square, etc) that's been updated in the last few years, while big behemoths (e.g. Lowe's, Fedex, USPS) are the holdouts clinging to bespoke antiquated payments hardware.