Re:Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Square
by clamps123 on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @08:31AM
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What? Perhaps if you have down syndrome, but otherwise takes around 5 seconds. Swipe card, enter 4 digit pin, press enter. Faster than it would take the cashier to type in the amount you just gave him, much less make change.
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Re:Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Square
by untog on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @09:32AM
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Down Syndrome? Really?
In any case, plenty of people do struggle with it- the old especially. But that's not the biggest factor. With a swipe everything is done by one person- the cashier. PIN entry requires a back and forth between customer and cashier, and I've seen plenty of cashiers not notice that the PIN entry has gone through, etc.