Originally Posted by
stut
Is it that the signature pads are on older machines, which were active during the migration to full chip-and-PIN? I certainly remember using them with my non C&P Amex a few years ago.
They're almost unusable to left-handers, too...
The ones I'm familiar with are at Sainsbury's and don't seem too old, but I haven't been here long enough to know when the migration happened, so they might be old enough. Especially if they were ordered in large quantities and rolled out more gradually as they were constructed, so they were built to a spec that was not relevant by the time many of them were installed.