Guess what, they had to do it anyway, just 10 years later than Europe, idiots.That was pretty blunt, but all true. I blame the retail sales lobbying association for the swipe-or-insert bullcrap - we, as a nation, should've completely and fully adopted chip readers and chipped cards many many years ago, like Europe, but apparently the lobbying group that represents retailers here in the USA said it would be too expensive for all the shops to convert over to the new standard. Wow, IL and WA are ahead of the curve, who woulda thunk it?Īnd the chip readers are also annoyingly non-standard - lots of POS terminals *have* the chip reader, but if you try to use it, they won't work and you have to swipe, then there are other ones where it's vice versa - swipe, then it tells you to use the chip reader. Guess what, they had to do it anyway, just 10 years later than Europe, idiots. The whole "can't swipe until the end" is annoying too, hasn't been that way until recently, but at Walgreen's and Barnes & Noble, you can't swipe until you see the little green or blue arrows flashing, very odd that they'd go backwards technologically.Īnd the chip readers are also annoyingly non-standard - lots of POS terminals *have* the chip reader, but if you try to use it, they won't work and you have to swipe, then there are other ones where it's vice versa - swipe, then it tells you to use the chip reader. All you had to do at the end was okay your total and you were on your way.Īt the Tulsa store, you can't swipe your card until the checker was finished (at least that's what she told me) and it also has one of those chip-card readers which requires a whole other process and you only know that after you try to swipe your card, again at the end of the ringing up.Wow, IL and WA are ahead of the curve, who woulda thunk it? The ones in Cali allowed you to swipe your card as soon as the checker started scanning your items and put in your PIN. I was pained to see the Tulsa's Trader Joes has a new checkout point of sale. There are many times where I actually check out and pass the person in front of me, who is still standing there putting all the crap back in their pockets/purse, digging for their keys and sunglasses etc. The average person is in their own little world and couldn't care less about all the people behind them. I can tell you the check out process at most places in California were very bad as well. That's probably why the QT cashiers do it their way - lots faster (as you said, Pete), they got tired of the lines not moving quikly enough. Very curious that the cultural difference is so pronounced (to us), wonder occasionally why it is so different here. Fumble around and write checks after the cashier tells them the total at the store, still goes inside and pays at gas stations, etc. What is it with the slow people in checkout lines or at gas stations/convenience stores? When we lived in IL and WA, almost everybody knew how to swipe their cards, used them instead of checks (don't know if they were debit or credit, ours are debit) at grocery stores (and almost everywhere else), and used them all the time at gas pumps. They take your card, quickly swipe it, ask if you want your receipt and then are on your way.Īll the places (like OnCue) that have the customer swipe their own card really slows things down because people always take forever to figure it out, swipe it the right way, enter their PIN, etc.Semi-related and hopefully not pointlessly negative. Yes, the cashiers and process for checking out at QT is fantastic.
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