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Old Jul 12, 2018 | 9:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Centurion
A large majority of restaurants in the United States have decided to not comply with with EMV chip requirements and continue to swipe only for various reasons including the fact that POS systems were very late to adopt EMV and the cost associated and also the slow speed of EMV. By not complying with EMV the fraud liability falls upon the merchant establishment versus the card issuer
I'm noticing this slowly changing, actually. However, one thing that likely will (mostly) never come to the US is handheld wireless terminals. They're pretty hard for restaurants to justify anyway when tip adjust is still allowed and PIN isn't required for chip.
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