You know this is just embarrassing.
When I last travelled to the UK with my American credit card, shop staff looked at me like I was a refugee from the third world with my plastic card with some VHS tape glued to the back.
In most of Europe and indeed 84 or so countries around the world, they've moved to chip and PIN credit cards. They are nowhere near so vulnerable as our antiquated technology, so they don't have fiascos like Target and similar.
In fact many countries have had this for over a decade.
Even though some of our credit cards are getting chips in them, they are still not the same as chip and PIN. And still not compatible with the standards used abroad.
We should be leading the world with this stuff, and instead we are deliberately choosing to be left behind.
What's worse, with this amazing new technology that Apple has provided, retailers like CVS and RiteAid are actually making a disgusting conscious decision to disable Apple Pay even though they are perfectly capable of accepting it. Just for reasons of greed, and nothing to do with customer service or choice.
Apple Pay is a way for us in America to start to catch up with the rest of the world, and yet American corporations are finding ways to kill it as best they can.
Despicable and embarrassing anti-consumer behavior.
I for one will be boycotting any corporation that chooses to deliberately stand in the way of progress.
