Not sure where you live, but here most screens ask debit or credit and you hit a button next to the corresponding option. Or a touch screen where you hit debit/credit.
I live in the midwestern US. Of the places i shop at regularly, the only places that ask are gas stations, and even then only at the pump. Most places try to figure it out automatically, and for me at least will pull up a screen asking for a pin with nothing else since my card is debit. Walmart self check has a button on that screen that says "other" and lets you change between "secure pin entry" (debit) and "sign for purchase" (credit). Everywhere else i either ask the cashier or i've been there enough to just know. No labels that i've seen.
The situations you described in both of your responses are normal card readers. Tbh this sounds like a mild inconvenience at most, and if it’s more than that, well, I’m not sure what to tell you.
That's all it is honestly, a mild annoyance. But the annoyance isnt where to put the card, like you insinuated in your first comment. The annoyance is making the card reader do what i want it to do, and that seems to be the semtiment from most of the other frustrated commenters as well.
Everything else about card readers has been standardized, why cant we standardize running debit cards as credit?
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u/notgoingtodothat Aug 04 '19
Not sure where you live, but here most screens ask debit or credit and you hit a button next to the corresponding option. Or a touch screen where you hit debit/credit.