Originally Posted by
reclusive46
You probably haven't been looking very hard. About 50% of big retailers (If not more) including places like Walmart and CVS and many small merchants have EMV machines, many of them are just not enabled yet.
As your card is probably a chip and signature card, the merchant would insert it and it would ask for a signature, like usual.
On my business and personal trips to US with my UK cards, I probably do a chip and pin transaction once or twice during the trip these days(Normally 2 weeks).
I have the citi visa Hilton honors reserve.
Sounds like next time it happens I may have to give her some instructions. It's is the first card I've had with a chip. I can't think of any other reason than she didn't know what she was doing. If the chip portion of the reader wasn't enabled, then it should have just done a regular swipe right? Otherwise, as you said, it would say to insert the card to read the chip?