Where have you used your EMV chip in the US?

[lg8302ch]

Tested a European chip&pin Mastercard at 7-11 and bam... to my big surprise requested the pin ...wow ..... desperately waiting for chip&pin everywhere....LOL

[nyancat]

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@lg8302ch wrote:

Tested a European chip&pin Mastercard at 7-11 and bam... to my big surprise requested the pin ...wow ..... desperately waiting for chip&pin everywhere....LOL

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Glad to hear that! No 7-11 near me. Can anyone confirm that there are any active Starbucks or Best Buy stores? Again, in my area, Best Buy doesn't use the chip, and Starbucks isn't EMV at all... I thought that was the case US-wide.

My understanding was that EMV was limited to a handful of Walmart stores plus some merchants using Chase Paymentech

[cottoncrown]

I swiped my PRG at everyday music (a chain in the Pacific Northwest) and it insisted the chip be inserted. The receipt also showed chip as the method at which the card was read.

[ccuser]

I've used a European chip+pin debit card in a new Citibank ATM. It displayed a usual prompt like "Insert and quickly remove your card", what I did. And then it somehow understood that the card has a chip and wrote "Please insert your chip card" in different languages. So I inserted the card again and it was locked in the reader until I completed the transaction. So it definitely worked with the chip, but it was kind of weird compared to ATMs in Europe that normally just swallow your card right away, regardless if it has a chip or not.

[nyancat]

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@cottoncrown wrote:
I swiped my PRG at everyday music (a chain in the Pacific Northwest) and it insisted the chip be inserted. The receipt also showed chip as the method at which the card was read.

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Did they use Chase Paymentech by any chance?

[cottoncrown]

Not sure, it was a little silver handheld pinpad with the discover, amex, visa mc logos on the top. I don't remember seeing any chase logos and I probly would have noticed.

[nyancat]

I'm glad to hear that there are more merchants accepting EMV in the United States. I'm hopeful that, awful as the situation is, the Target situation today and the URM Stores (local to Washington/Idaho/Montana but large enough breach I'm sure merchants are talking about it) will cause a fire to be lit in the direction of EMV migration.

[L-TWT]

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@nyancat wrote:

I'm glad to hear that there are more merchants accepting EMV in the United States. I'm hopeful that, awful as the situation is, the Target situation today and the URM Stores (local to Washington/Idaho/Montana but large enough breach I'm sure merchants are talking about it) will cause a fire to be lit in the direction of EMV migration.

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+1

B/c I was just thinking the same thing!

[nyancat]

Any updates? I've yet to have a transaction run as EMV within the United States, so I'm curious where people are seeing it happen.

[blondy250]

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@nyancat wrote:

Any updates? I've yet to have a transaction run as EMV within the United States, so I'm curious where people are seeing it happen.

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The establishments I've used it at, 7-11, Best buy, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and Subway(sandwich place).