Originally Posted by
alexmt
Yes, I believe the US is the only market where merchants are widely choosing to actually disable EMV (and contactless) on their shiny new EMV-capable terminals.
Apple Pay may be the incentive needed to get contactless enabled, and EMV may come along with it.
The interesting thing I have noticed is that newer terminals may not have the clear signs they are enabled for contactless, as they were in the past. Case in point is Home Depot. The old terminals had the contactless reader attached to the top (as we have seen nearly everywhere contactless has been accepted), while such an attachment is absent from the new EMV capable machines. However, the screen on the new terminals displays the logos for PayPass and Discover's Zip (for the few who use the latter), which indicates there is probably a contactless reader somewhere on the terminal.