Shops ill-prepared for smart cards

Liz Moore has lots to worry about as she juggles the many duties necessary to keep her popular downtown lunch counter, Bluebird Kitchen, running at a perfect simmer. This fall, Moore has one more thing to add to her worry list: a looming deadline for accepting chip-enabled smart cards that has caught her and many other small-business owners unaware and unprepared. "I didn't know about [the deadline] until you called me," Moore said to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "I had no idea. No idea."