There are places that ask for it, and it was common before also, at least in the US. Are you perhaps on the younger side, or haven’t been much in the US about…m 10 to 15 years ago? That’s when I had the most signature confirming type stuff, with some places not accepting a card that wasn’t signed (usually smaller shops that didn’t have a customer facing POS device, or offline CC stuff, which occasionally happened at places like Cons).
There are places that ask for it, and it was common before also, at least in the US. Are you perhaps on the younger side, or haven’t been much in the US about…m 10 to 15 years ago? That’s when I had the most signature confirming type stuff, with some places not accepting a card that wasn’t signed (usually smaller shops that didn’t have a customer facing POS device, or offline CC stuff, which occasionally happened at places like Cons).