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At 870 McDonald's restaurants across Germany, the familiar clink of the cash register will soon be replaced, in part, by a payment system that allows customers to pay for goods using stored-value smart cards. Hewlett-Packard's VeriFone unit announced this month that it will provide the smart card payment terminals.
Smart cards look similar to credit cards, but they include a …