I agree. They allow these idiots to pay with their credit cards in the “express lane,” and it actually takes longer as they have to find their credit card, scan it, then scan it again as if they have never done this before—they can’t remember their PIN number or they entered it incorrectly.
The other alternative is cash—you give them the bill. You get the change and you are gone. Less than twenty seconds and you are on the way home—no lost credit cards, no forgotten PIN codes, not even a justified belligerent shopper waiting behind you.
Simple. Unfortunately it does not make sense as technology and the banks want it another way and the sheeple are all too willing to acquiesce. There is no going back.
Credit card purchases clear in a second or two and do not require PINs (nor signatures for small purchases). Quicker than cash and way quicker than checks or customers who insist on counting out exact change.
Debit cards do require a PIN, but there is no reason to use those.
And of course it helps if your credit card rebates 6% on groceries and 3% on gas, as mine does.
We’re on our way to being a cashless world. Someday, they’ll institute no-knock raids, impose fines and jail penalties for having/using cash. Sounds idiotic, but I see it coming.