Same in Italy, with old swipe cards you have to show an ID; some merchandiser don't ask but they should. Anyway, this mostly faded away since most of new cards

Same in Italy, with old swipe cards you have to show an ID; some merchandiser don't ask but they should. Anyway, this mostly faded away since most of new cards are chip&pin and, more importantly, in Italy most of the people use debit cards (Bancomat is the common debit circuit here) or... cash :-\