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Nobody uses physical cards anymore... even my kids pay with their toy watch when playing restaurant Edit: Tap pay is ubiquitous in the EU
by welder 2y ago
Nobody uses physical cards anymore... even my kids pay with their toy watch when playing restaurant
Edit: Tap pay is ubiquitous in the EU
- dkasper 2y agoAbsolutely not true. Some places still don’t even take tap to pay and still use chip.
- abakker 2y agoYes - for example, Home Depot does not take tap payments yet.
- tonyarkles 2y agoThis is something I find so fascinating about the American financial system... Home Depot in Canada has taken tap payments and Apple Pay for a long time now.
- crazygringo 2y agoYeah Home Depot is a bizarre exception, AFAIK they signed a contract with PayPal at some point long ago that prevents them from accepting tap-to-pay. Their checkouts have all the hardware for tap-to-pay, but contractually they can't turn it on. Hopefully that contract ends soon, because wow did they shoot themselves in the foot on that one.
- welder 2y agoHome Depot only exists in the USA. I was talking about EU where tap is everywhere.
- fortran77 2y agoThey're in Canada and Mexico too.
- t0mas88 2y agoIs that in the US? Europe hasn't used the magnetic strip on cards for years. It's all chip based and those payment terminals all take NFC / Apple Pay. It would be suicide for a shop not to take it, I know many people that don't carry their bank card at all. Only their phone for Apple pay.