Yes, I'm not sure why it's slow in catching on here. We've had contactless payments for years (I had a card that supported it around 2008) but they're still not common.

I suspect that one is more of a chicken-and-egg problem, with merchants not really caring to adopt it as long as few people have the cards, and card issuers not really caring to issue them as long as few merchants accept them. But I don't really know.