Originally Posted by
alexmt
What I find ironic is Wendy's here DOES have EMV terminals, which is just bizarre to me given they're whining about the liability shift due to how much EMV terminals cost. They already have them!
The Wendy's down here in SoCal doesn't have them (at least the ones I go to), whereas all the Carl's Jr. that I've been to have the newer EMV capable terminals (none of which are activated)
I guess part of the fear of "oh noes it's going to cost more for upgrades waaah" whining done by retailers and merchants is that they haven't paid any real attention to what equipment they have right now. Most likely, if they did a POS terminal replacement within the past few years,
they already came with EMV slot pre-built in!
It's kinda like saying oh no, everything is going Blu-ray, now I have to buy a Blu-ray player, uhh...but when you replaced your "DVD player" a year ago, you essentially bought a Blu-ray player but you've been using it only to watch DVDs.
D'oh!
