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by devilbunny 218 days ago
> didn't realized they could just tap to pay instead of running the chip

The tap zone is often not clearly marked. Some places (e.g., Walmart) it doesn't work at all (yes, even using a card instead of a phone). If you pull the card out anyway, I find that I end up having to use the chip about one time in ten. If that were, say, three times in ten, I'd just stick to inserting the card in the chip reader. Those rarely seem to fail.
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IAmBroom 218 days ago
And GP really doesn't know how many of those people had tap-to-pay cards, but just assumed everyone did.

I have several payment cards. Only one is tap-to-pay.

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Anon4Now 217 days ago
I only brought it up to customers who had tap symbols on their cards. The surprising part wasn't that they didn't realize that they could tap, it's that they didn't even know that the technology existed.
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devilbunny 218 days ago
You must have some old cards, then. I don’t think any I’ve been issued in the past five years have a chip but don’t have tap-to-pay. (Gift cards are usually swipe-only, for cost reasons.)

But good point.

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