The chip-and-pin readers are more common over here than you might think, and we get cash back from supermarkets too. Many places that normally do smaller transactions don't offer the service for amounts under £5 or £10 because the charges to them are excessive, and because data lines are or were slow and also expensive.
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Date: 2007-07-01 06:27 pm (UTC)