Electronic payment at grocery stores in the US is affected.

chgs · 2024-07-19T07:42:52 1721374972

I’m Amazed at that. I had no idea the US had caught up and had electronic payments.

dclowd9901 · 2024-07-19T08:26:24 1721377584

I’m guessing for chip reading? It’s one-time transaction key so I don’t think it works async.

anal_reactor · 2024-07-19T08:15:47 1721376947

All five payment terminals in Germany are down. "Unfortunately, all online governmental services are affected. All two of them" says the chancellor.

weberer · 2024-07-19T13:04:16 1721394256

What are you talking about? Credit cards have been around since the 1950's

Kye · 2024-07-19T14:10:10 1721398210

For much of their history they were written down or copied on carbon paper and manually processed by phone later. Electronic processing came in the 70s and wasn't universally used until much later. I saw plenty of credit card imprinters in use well into the 90s when I was growing up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter

Card issuers only stopped embossing them recently.

Scoundreller · 2024-07-19T07:38:36 1721374716

POS down? Payment processor down?

Lotta different grocery stores and processors in USA. WHO?