>Stores would tape over the chip slot and put on a note saying "Wipe instead".
I don't know about the EU, but US stores did this too. It has nothing to do with chip transactions being slow though. My chip card will not work when swiped at a chip-enabled PoS terminal. The issue, in the US at least, is that stores updated the physical terminal before (sometimes long before) enabling chip transactions at the processor level.
I don't know about the EU, but US stores did this too. It has nothing to do with chip transactions being slow though. My chip card will not work when swiped at a chip-enabled PoS terminal. The issue, in the US at least, is that stores updated the physical terminal before (sometimes long before) enabling chip transactions at the processor level.