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If MasterCard isn’t going to offer lower rates for card present w/ signature vs card present w/o signature then you can guarantee smart retailers will choose to opt out of signatures. Instantly shave 5-30 seconds off your average transaction time.


> Instantly shave 5-30 seconds off your average transaction time.

McDonald's clearly cares about this. They have the fastest card readers around. I've always wondered if they are actually running the transaction in real time, or just collecting the card info and running it later, accepting the losses from the occasional bad read.


And you no longer have to store the paper / electronic signatures.




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