I wish I could say that I tried Amex contactless it at Safeway. But, when I got to the office, I walked in to 16 open tickets for contactless not working. I tried rebooting the pin pads at the first store and that didn’t fix it. The on-screen dots show up, but the pin pads don’t actually have NFC turned on since my phone did not pop up the wallet when held up to the screen, and even when I tried to use Apple Pay to test it, no response. I rebooted every pin pad in that store and none of them would work. Someone in the software dept. screwed this one up very badly.

I’ve escalated this as a division-wide issue to the Safeway POS engineering department. Fingers crossed that they’ll at least roll it back.

Alright, that means it’s still using MSD so it should work.