Originally Posted by
scibot
Target is the same way from the looks of it, but what you can count on is to look at the screen and it will tell you to swipe, insert or tap when its ready for you to pay so that is how you that its on. Plus Trader Joe's has rolled out EMV to all stores by now.
Actually you can't always count on the on screen prompt either. As mentioned before, I've seen swipe or insert prompts at Vons (Safeway) both on terminals with chip slots (where inserting did nothing) and on terminals that don't even have chip slots.
Most of the time it's a good indicator though.