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by ritwikr 1590 days ago
Stripe does have a physical terminal too (https://stripe.com/terminal) but I've never seen it at a merchant.
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Huh, I did not know that, I’ve also never seen one out in the wild.
You probably have. They're completely non-desccript and unbranded, unlike most other POS solutions, so you're likely to not remember it.
I just recently noticed some- Jimmy John's uses the stripe Verifone reader and Toast tablets use the BBPOS Chipper (but this may not be thru stripe). These readers are "stripe-compatible," but not exclusively for stripe.
2018: "Square become Stripe, while Stripe becomes Square"

Stripe's bread and butter is payment backends, while Square was the point-of-sales system

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18007454