[Gllug] OT - chip & pin

[john levin]

Martyn Drake wrote:
> On 3 Apr 2006, at 10:55, Alain Williams wrote:
> 
>> On Friday I filled up my car at Tesco.
>> When it came to pay they would not let me put my card into the 
>> chip'n'pin machine
>> that had the numeric keypad attached, instead they put it into their 
>> till keyboard
>> & then asked me to enter my number onto the numeric keypad.
> 
> Sainsburys do this as well - they don't actually put the card into the 
> keypad reader - it gets swiped via the reader at the side of the till.
> 

Strangely enough, in Sainsburys today, my card was put directly into the 
reader, and not swiped in the till reader. Have Sainsburys just changed 
policy, or did I get a one-off?

John
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