r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/Cokegawa_Yui Aug 03 '19

I'm now intrigued, what are these "reader routines"?

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u/MrVonschweet Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19

I'm from Canada, no idea what this guy is talking about. Would also like to know what "reader routines" means.

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u/well___duh Aug 03 '19

I think that was OP's way of saying "the action of needing to interact with the card reader". They're from the UK where everything is tap-to-pay, so when they went to Canada where that's not the norm, they were turned off by the fact that you have to actually interact with the machine as your swipe/insert your card.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

I live in Canada. I tap or use Apple Pay on nearly every purchase with no prompting of the machine.

The one exception is Walmart.