I was in the South Bay Area today and stopped by the Costco in Sunnyvale that theoretically takes contactless payments. I say theoretically because despite all the terminals saying Tap Card and displaying a (poorly rendered and squished) contactless logo, I had to try 4 different tills to get one that actually had NFC enabled. The others just did not respond to anything. The manager there was very happy to try different tills in order to better report which ones were working. They said that it has never been reliable and will randomly stop working.
As much as I would like Costco to roll out contactless across the US, I don't think they should until they get it actually working reliably.
(For those wondering, I tapped when everything was totalled, and the amount used for the cryptogram was US$1.00)
Last edited by D582; Apr 13, 2018 at 11:15 pm