On 1/23/2012 4:51 PM, John Levine wrote:

I gather that if you already have a credit card point of sale terminal,
it's a cheap add-on. The hard part may be negotiating the floor limit
below which the customer doesn't have to sign. At Wegmans, it's quite
high, $50.

Actually, it may drop the costs of the transactions as they may charge
less as it is harder to counterfeit the chip than it is the card swipe.