Home Depot also lied about EMV, at least as of a couple weeks ago they were still not accepting EMV cards. Thus, I have no reason to trust them at all with payment security. What a shame. According to people I talked to at Home Depot, they know chip card support will come "eventually" but they did not seem to expect it any time soon.

Walmart did not lie - technically - about enabling EMV. But they violate card network rules that they are not to allow swipes of EMV cards unless the card or terminal is broken. You can happily swipe away a chip card at Walmart. Thus, counterfeit magnetic stripes made from chip cards can still be used at Walmart. Their system also rejects chip Visa Debit cards.

Target and Walgreens have about six weeks to meet their "first quarter 2015" promise. I seriously doubt they will accomplish this, but we shall see.