Credit card fraud and other issues aside, retail merchants have something new to lose sleep over.
EMV or Europay, MasterCard, and Visa have become popular in the retail industry. Merchants who deal with credit card terminals are unsure what to think of this new technology—whether it will benefit them or not.
It seems we are paying attention at the wrong thing. In the rush to talk about credit card terminals, merchants have forgotten how EMV can possibly affect Point-of-Sales systems technology.