“According to Forbes, CVS simply shut off the chip card part of their terminals during the holiday season, to avoid the inevitable long lines. And CVS probably wasn’t the only retailer to do that. So, to rehash, the solution for longer lines wasn’t to make checkouts faster but to completely bypass the new security feature during the busiest shopping season of the year.”
The chip card transition in the US has been a disaster
http://qz.com/717876/the-chip-card-transition-in-the-us-has-been-a-disaster/
- (via iamdanw)
from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/148196902937
