Why do gas stations require a ZIP code for card payments while almost no other type of (physical) merchant requires this verification?

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Why do gas stations require a ZIP code for card payments while almost no other type of (physical) merchant requires this verification?

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Just to add, it only asks ZIP code for credit card payment, using a debit card will prompt you for your PIN.

But yeah, it’s just a small security measure, and you can’t really do signatures on a pump unless the screen was a touchscreen, and even then I probably wouldn’t want to touch it.

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