I’d regularly use quarters in vending machines, but not waste time during a retail transaction.

Symbiote 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In most other countries, since prices are shown including all taxes you can often have the money ready while waiting in line etc.

	▲	guntars 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Another aspect of the idiotic "we don't know what your tax is going to be" system (they do know it, actually) is that prices will typically end with .99 and the tax will push it over the next dollar and cause a bunch of change to be returned, instead of a single penny.

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dylan604 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> but not waste time during a retail transaction.

we could just go back to writing checks while we're at it.

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zahlman 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's amazing to me that people consider "saving time while paying money" to be a good thing.

I will never "tap" my debit card as long as I have any legal option. Everyone else can wait for me to exercise my consumer rights, by inputting my PIN, verifying the amount displayed on screen etc.

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quesera 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Entering your PIN and using a debit card is the least secure/safe version of electronic payment.

Tapping (NFC) or dipping (EMV) are safer and faster for everyone.

	▲	zahlman 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How do you figure? My threat model includes people stealing the card. I can have tap disabled on the card, and then thieves don't know my PIN. Yes, yes, that's like 13 bits of entropy. But it's not like they can use a computer to brute-force it.

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Retric 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wasting people’s time is rude here not illegal.

Courtesy may seem outdated to some, but it can occasionally come back to bite people. Being overly rude to waitstaff is something I’m concerned with around promotions because of how they might treat people inside the company. Without better information you extrapolate.

	▲	zahlman 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		... How is this related to what I said?

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robocat 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've seen a pattern where people that value their own time at $0 unfortunately often value the time of others at $0. Worse is valuing others at $0 and your own at $lots (which is also common).

	▲	zahlman 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting. I don't know what to make of the idea that I'm "not valuing my time" by carefully considering my purchases and caring about security. Or that the seconds I take on this are so important to both myself and others, compared to the time spent browsing the store shelves, getting to and from the place, etc. Heaven forbid I choose the cashier instead of a self check-out this time, and try to strike up a conversation.

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ocdtrekkie 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I used to do this for vending machines but now it’s common to need more than eight of them per transaction so it's kinda silly.