Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes
by SilverRed on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:06AM
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It's astounding how slow the rollout is in the US. I'm 22 and in Australia and I have never used a magnetic strip card and have used the insert chip method less than 10 times. Not a single card machine does not support contactless and only weird edge cases like refunds require you to insert your card.
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Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes
by irrational on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:31AM
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Don’t be surprised. The almighty dollar rules here. If they have to pay a dollar to upgrade the infrastructure to support contactless payments, they won’t do it until they absolutely have to. And even then, if there is a payment machine that doesn’t support contactless payments and it is 5 cents cheaper than one that does, they will go with the one that is cheaper. Multiply that by all the hundreds of thousands of different stores. There is a huge national retailer near me that recently replaced all of their sales terminals. I thought that finally I’d be able to use contactless payments. Nope. The new machines don’t accept contactless payments.