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It is, except at Walmart/Home Depot/Lowes/hotels/wait service restaurants and a few other brands in my experience.

The Home Depot I frequently used in Dallas supported contactless payments. Might be your area. Walmart however did not.

Interesting. Did it also accept Apple Pay? Between west coast and northeast coast, I have never seen a Home Depot accept any kind of contactless payment, even with newly installed self checkout systems.

I think so? That's the only thing I use. It's possible that I'm not remembering correctly. FWIW I was also using the self checkout thingy.

A cursory google search suggests that most HD stores do not accept it. There are some reddit threads about individual stores gaining support. Perhaps I lived in a test market?

Hopefully they rollout support soon!

I literally just paid with NFC at Home Depot like 3 hours ago.

It's been common for like a decade now.

It's not uncommon but a few major retailers like Walmart, Kroger, Home Depot and Lowe's for example don't accept it. It's also not too common in hospitality (they take your card to the cash register, instead of bringing the payment terminal to you).