Originally Posted by
kebosabi
Wow out on a whim I re-read this entire thread and it's like opening up a time capsule from 12 years ago.
I wonder how many people who back then said so-and-so about how mag-stripe is still king and EMV will never take off, now regularly dip their EMV chipped cards when they go out and buy groceries or those who said I don't want those darn contactless things because hackers can steal my info from a mile away are regularly doing that at 7-Eleven. LMAO
Original title was Chip
& Pin. Chip made it. Pin did not. It was Chip and Signature for a while, with the dollar value of transactions requiring signature has risen. At the same time, a lot of spend moved to online, no stripe, no chip, no pin. The ultimate form of contactless.
Magstripe is present at the grocery store for non-CC payment methods, keeping the older technology alive.
Chip hasn't made it to gas stations around here. It's swipe and zip code. The deadline swept through like a warm breeze on a summer day and then was gone.
The carbon-paper impression systems seemed to have finally vanished. It did take a very long time, but it finally went away. Mostly. You can still buy the forms from Staples and on Amazon. An impression machine will cost you $50. Technology is like that. Faxes are still around, and hospitals are infested with pagers, 'old' tech hanging on.