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 slowe

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...