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Those things never seem to work properly, at least in the UK. Receipt printers are always broken. Also was a study a few years back pre-COVID about them being covered in faeces particles.

I do prefer them to ordering at the counter due to pretty bad eyesight and having more time and I usually pay by card anyway but they're not the best things.

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pre-COVID about them being covered in faeces particles.

Gross. But somehow I doubt the POS credit card reader would be any different. Those types of studies find grossness everywhere (feces on movie seats, urine in the bar peanuts etc)

Don't need to touch those unless you need to use chip and pin. 99% of card machines in the UK take contactless and mobile payments.

Fair point. Although the main implication is that a POS doesn’t negate the risk, it just has different risk vectors.

contactless support is still very spotty in the US, both from issuing banks and at merchants.

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