I work near a Chase building which has a cafeteria in the basement open to everyone. Every checkout register there still hasn't moved their readers to chip transactions. They have 40+ floors of Chase above them and this is happening. It's ridiculous and telling of the U.S. chip reader rollout.
I ate there today at lunch. I pulled out my phone to do Apple Pay at the register and... nope not supported either. In the Chicago HQ of Americas #2 retail bank!
The US banks have been talking about "smart cards" and updating payment tech for 25 years, but from what I see they've only been talking...