Originally Posted by alexmt

I don't think UNFCU will be the only chip-and-PIN card forever. I really don't. I bet Target launches as true chip-and-PIN and I bet Walmart and Sam's Club follow through with their promise to switch. American Express is likely to switch as well, they've publicly stated that they see chip-and-signature as a transition step. Barclay's seems likely to make the switch, too, given their travel focus and the fact they've been relatively open how their cards work - I bet they'll see the light.

Originally Posted by JEFFJAGUAR

Finally and I'm only posing the question. Is this not one more example of American arrogance that if it's not done our way, it's the highway? In so many different ways, our country rejects things that other countries have adopted and athat would make ourselves conform more with the rest of the world (weights and measurers, coins instead of paper money for insignficant amounts like $1, gsm phone frequencies requiring different or at least more complicated mobile phones for use in the USA dare I say a single payer health care system, the 2nd amendment none of which I'm taking a position on but just pointing out. Now refusal to embrace a pin based credit card verification method. Is this what we mean by American exceptionalism which, as I said earlier, is drilled into our kids from tghe 1st grade on or is it American contempt for globalization? You can make up your own mind.