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Haven’t they been made obsolete a decade ago by ‘tap to pay’ or chip-card systems? I know in The Netherlands I haven't seen a magnetic stripe payment system sin

• dharmab 3y ago
  In the US, it's common enough to encounter swipe-only POS systems that you still have to carry your physical cards.
  • sgerenser 3y ago
    Swipe only is very rare in my neck of the woods (only one I can remember is someone at a craft fair in the past year who still only had the original square stripe reader). Perhaps you’re thinking of places that don’t support tap to pay but only chip (and thus don’t support Apple Pay)? Those I run into all the time (looking at you, Lowes and Home Depot).
    • nytesky 3y ago
      I had a plumber show up with a metal slide and CARBON paper. The vintage swipe. Many of my cards no longer have embossed numbers, so that has to be dicey. They take checks too of course
  • SoftTalker 3y ago
    Not sure of the last swipe-only reader I used, but it's still there as a fallback on many of them if chip and/or tap doesn't work for some reason. Gas pumps were the last holdouts on swipe reads, in my area anyway. My son was recently telling me he still knows of people who use the original Square swipe reader on their phone, which surprised me as I had guessed Square no longer supported it, and many phones don't even have the 3.5mm headphone jack that the reader plugs into.
• bragr 3y ago
  The US adopted chip card systems much later. You can still find magnetic readers in use, although they are officially deprecated and I've read merchants that haven't upgraded have higher fees and less protection against charge backs.