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Apr 5, 2013 | 2:43 pm

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kebosabi

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Originally Posted by Occam

It is high if you are looking to to the U.S. as a whole. But most of the transactions is generated in testing area of Florida which is popular for foreigners to visit. Thus it can generate 0.5 % of all transactions in US.

Major part of EMV transactions occure at mentioned merchants: Walmart, Home Depot, 7-Eleven, CVS Pharmacy.
Interesting to me was to find out that chip transactions make about 5 % and contactless (NFC) transactions about 95 % of all EMV. New terminals are apparently used for low-amount quick transactions rather than ordinary purchases in stores.

Interesting indeed!

I wonder what the foreigners with EMV cards are doing at Home Depot in FL though. Buying Black & Decker power tools as gifts for friends and relatives back home?

Last edited by kebosabi; Apr 5, 2013 at 2:52 pm