“Sorry. I know you’re on assistance because you can’t afford food, but for your security we’re not going to let you buy food with your government benefits as you may become a scam victim.
Come back when your state government decides to pay to re-issue every card with better technology.”
That’s cruel. The move to EMV was only recently mandated for EBT (if I remember correctly and it was done at all) because so many people were having their benefits stolen by mag stripe skimmers.
You can’t use a stick against powerless people to affect change. It just makes them suffer.
Even if Target did mandate contactless, the stock would plummet on news of all the lost sales and the CEO would be out. The new one would reverse it immediately.
