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I completely agree. When I worked as a cashier, we had no problem letting people pay with credit cards even in the event of a full-on power outage. We just used

• bombcar 3y ago
  Outages are short and rare enough that newer cashiers may never have seen the imprint machine (and the store, if it has one, it’s probably buried in customer service somewhere). Where outages are more common it’s more likely people have workarounds - kind of like how when there was a power failure and the power company told the local store it would be 4+ hours to recovery they declared “discounted dairy”.
• mrguyorama 3y ago
  Modern cards aren't always embossed anymore. Most payment networks still have offline and eccentric ways to make a transaction, but it all comes down to one thing: If you don't do the most modern, 100% online method of credit card processing, you will be on the hook for any and all fraud, including fraud you can prove was fraud, and it usually costs more. It's just cheaper to say "Sorry nothing we can do"