I'm in the US, and I had never seen anybody actually use it up to a week or so ago, even though lots of retailers are putting in the chip-capable readers. But I

I'm in the US, and I had never seen anybody actually use it up to a week or so ago, even though lots of retailers are putting in the chip-capable readers. But I've been traveling for the last week or so, and I just ran into a couple of retailers in other states where I had to scan the chip of my cards instead of the mag strip for the charge to go through - and one of them was Target. So it looks like it is coming to the US, slowly but surely.