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here in CA they have a chip and nfc in addition to the mag strip but neither of those things work in most places. big name grocery stores can’t even handle an EBT card’s chip. it feels deliberate.

As an Australian this feels strange to hear - we switched to chip well over a decade ago (back when I still worked retail) and moved to tapping the card shortly after that. Now tapping cards are accepted everywhere. What could be slowing things down over there?

those systems work just fine for everything else, it’s specifically our EBT cards that are the problem. they *want* being poor to be embarrassing and frustrating.