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We just got tap and pay terminals to be ubiquitously deployed (and are still a major pain). It took a global pandemic - any point of sale rollout would be decad
by bhawks 4y ago
We just got tap and pay terminals to be ubiquitously deployed (and are still a major pain). It took a global pandemic - any point of sale rollout would be decades long.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoHad those in California a year or three before the pandemic.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoWalmart, Home Depot, Lowes, Fred Meyer (Kroger), and Winco (also grocery store) still do not have tap to pay, even though their terminals are capable and have the tap to pay symbol. Infuriating. Every other place I have been to has tap to pay.
- tialaramex 4y agoThat's crazy. I don't think teenagers in the UK ever carry physical credit cards on them. They just wave their phone at stuff. Even the people I buy pizza from, who are literally in a van, in a car park (it's the best pizza in the city, what can I say, the man may not want to run a proper sit-down restaurant but he does know how to cook a really good pizza) have tap to pay. The buses, the corner stores, everything has it.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThe smaller places all have tap to pay in my experience. It is the large businesses, which I listed, that do not seem to have incentive to update their systems to allow tap to pay.
- Consultant32452 4y agoThat just reminded me about how my CC's tap to pay spend limit was like $40 per transaction before the pandemic. That was a huge waste of a feature until the limits were raised.
- imtringued 4y agoFrom what I recall those limits only let you skip entering the pin.