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Re:Nearly All U.S. Home Depot Stores Hit By Credit Card Theft by josho on Thursday September 04, 2014 @02:41PM (#8269919)
The roll out for chip and pin in Canada started the same, but within the last year, I've found mag only readers to be extremely rare.
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Re:Nearly All U.S. Home Depot Stores Hit By Credit Card Theft by nucleardog on Thursday September 04, 2014 @06:55PM (#8271137)
Even travelling through a lot of small towns in rural areas I don't think I've run into a magstripe-only reader in the past couple years at least.

There was a period where it was a guessing game every time you paid for something whether it was magstripe or chip (some locations even had a chip-capable machine, but didn't have the service enabled with their payment processor, so you still used the magstripe...).

It's pretty consistent now.

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