I doubt that’s the reason. Home Depot in Mexico has no such contract and they, too, don’t have contactless just like the US stores.
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I doubt that’s the reason. Home Depot in Mexico has no such contract and they, too, don’t have contactless just like the US stores.
They haven't had that option in many years. They signed that contract in 2012. I haven't seen the option since they replaced their pinpads in 2017.
You don't really think anyone here (or anywhere for that matter) can accurately answer that question do you?
Visa themselves claimed 80 out of the top 100 stores accepted it back in 2019. I imagine it's higher now.
EDIT: added "top" to above.
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It says from Apple Pay USA website that 85% of retailers in USA accept contactless payments and Apple Pay.
Apple Pay
Apple Pay is an easy way to pay in stores, online, and in apps. Use it to pay in full, over time, or with rewards. It’s safe, secure, and private.
www.apple.com
But 'retailers' is a small fraction of all US businesses.It says from Apple Pay USA website that 85% of retailers in USA accept contactless payments and Apple Pay.
Apple Pay
Apple Pay is an easy way to pay in stores, online, and in apps. Use it to pay in full, over time, or with rewards. It’s safe, secure, and private.www.apple.com
And i suspect ‘retailers’ only includes stores, not other businesses that may take credit and debit cards such as sit down restaurants, post offices, hospitals, storage facilities, doctors’ offices, hotels, schools, car dealerships, government offices, sports clubs or parking lots. Including those, the percentage of businesses accepting apple pay and contactless may be substantially lower than 85%.
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It is that these businesses in USA use mostly card swipers instead of pinpads.
Most pinpads today in USA have contactless feature.
It will change in USA for most of these businesses who use card swipers to buy pinpads. Mastercard in 2027 will remove the magnetic stripe from their credit cards and debit cards from 2027 in USA and Canada.
Swiping left on magnetic stripes
With the rise of the chip card, this once-pioneering payment technology is being retired.
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Ehhh...I've used contactless at some of those. I'm not sure it's as uncommon as it used to be even there.
That 85% Stat is a few years old.
Here's a more recent article that claims 90% acceptance.
Since that article, was published, several more retailers have added it.
Michael’s, Kroger, Harris Teeter, Lowe’s, Menards, AMC Theaters, and USPS. That's many thousands of additional locations.
I would expect it to be about 92 or 93% by now.
Here's a more recent article that claims 90% acceptance.
Since that article, was published, several more retailers have added it.
Michael’s, Kroger, Harris Teeter, Lowe’s, Menards, AMC Theaters, and USPS. That's many thousands of additional locations.
I would expect it to be about 92 or 93% by now.
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Again, that number likely doesn’t include businesses other than stores that take card payments.
I updated the list.
It seems that Regal Cinemas and Hobby Lobby stores accept only Apple Pay in their mobile apps in USA.
It seems that Regal Cinemas and Hobby Lobby stores accept only Apple Pay in their mobile apps in USA.
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In stores it’s easy, just as long as they take contactless they take apple pay. The real challenge is for merchants to accept apple pay online and in their apps. That’s where the percentage of apple pay acceptance is rather low in the US and even lower outside the US.
This is just not true.
While most systems that allow contactless do -also- accept apple pay, it is not 100% the case that if they support contactless then Apple pay is automatically accepted.
Of course there are exceptions, but even in the US it's still generally true that contactless acceptance means that Apple Pay works (at least at the terminal level). The differences start showing up when you consider the usability of the terminal in the first place. For example, the hospitality/food service industries in general are especially not great for customer use of NFC but depending on the location may still have significant use of contactless (by virtue of employees tapping physical cards for customers).
Unfortunately I suspect that as long as contactless is getting used at all, that's good enough for Visa, MC, etc. Which means that a lot of the usability issues may never get fixed.
What’s striking is how those usability issues seem to be pretty much exclusive to the USA and very rarely if at all do they happen anywhere else.