Chip and Pin Cards
Do you know what's crazy to me? The lack of outcry from the American consumer about lack of chip and pin cards, during this crazy crazy time of security breaches in some of America's largest retailers. Retailers who I bet you've visited before: Target, Home Depot, PF Chang's, Sally Beauty Supply, Dairy Queen, Supervalu, UPS, Jimmy John's, Goodwill, Michael's, and Nieman Marcus - just to name a few of the ones in the last three months. What's even crazier? There's a solution. It's the chip and pin cards that our european counterpart adopted many years ago and have become standard in the EU. If you've been anywhere in western Europe in the last 5 years, you know how difficult it can be (especially outside of large cities) to make purchases with a standard US credit card that doesn't use chip and pin technology. Why don't we get them? Because it's more expensive for the retailers & banks to put this additional technolog...