From: Jonathan Bryce 
Subject: Re: Chip & Pin @ Tescos
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:26:18 +0100

Colin Wilson wrote:

> I had the same about 4 years ago in the US - fast food restaurant simply
> swiped the card and that was it.
> 
> Struck me as a potential for fraud at the time, but given the value...
> 
> Perhaps if the value is above a certain amount it needs to be checked
> manually or otherwise authorised ?

I know that at M&S before chip and pin came in, you could do that at the
self service checkouts.  If you asked for cashback, the machine would ask
for a member of staff to check the signature before it would give you the
money.  Perhaps it would do that for high value transactions as well.