not sure where in the UK you were spending/shopping but I live in the UK and all card readers require chip and pin and there is no signature required. Whilst th

not sure where in the UK you were spending/shopping but I live in the UK and all card readers require chip and pin and there is no signature required. Whilst the readers have a swipe facility if your card has a chip you are required to use it. Perhaps because you were using an international card it allowed you to use the swipe facility although I have no idea why you would choose that as it is significantly slower.