What do you mean by that? Apple Card is a mastercard so it would still work at stores and other places over there for americans traveling with it.
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Walmart Stands Firm on Why It Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in the U.S.
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But they do in all other countries where they have a presence. Only in Mexico and the US they don’t.
it could if they added the ‘buy with apple pay’ button to the app. But they won’t, and if I have to enter wll my card info that cancels any other benefit for me. I just won’t shop at Walmart.
We know they did buy nfc equipped pinpads: they use ingenico lane 7000s and those things have nfc built in. They just turn off the nfc through software.
But NFC vs chip doesn’t make a difference on the fee paid. That Walmart shuts off nfc to save money is nothing but a myth that has spread too widely.
And before Apple Cash had that you could use the Apple Card by entering its virtual number.
NFC has never worked at Walmart. Samsung Pay used to work there because it could use the old magnetic stripe reader, but even that they managed to disable a few years later.
Nor does it make a difference in how much the store pays worth of fees. Whether you use a mobile wallet (apple pay, google pay), however, does make a difference in the store’s ability to track your purchases.
They do get less information, though. They don’t get your name, for instance, which they do when you use the physical card.
Once again, no. Walmart pays the same interchange fees whether or not contactless is used as long as they still accept credit cards. The only way to avoid interchange fees is by going cash only.
Walmart shuts off contactless, therefore banning all forms of tapping. Because this website is apple centric and us-based they use the terms apple pay and contactless interchangeably although they’re really not the same.
No they don’t. As long as they’re accepting credit cards they’re not lowering transaction costs at all. They still pay the same interchanfe fee when a card is inserted or when Walmart Pay, which still needs to have a credit card stored, is used.
The only requirement was for restaurants to upgrade to chip like everybody else, but they all did it by buying wired pinpads instead of portable card readers like in the rest of the world, so they had to continue taking people’s cards away like in the old days, thereby preventing and/or hindering the use of mobile wallets.
It’s not for each purchase. It’s a different number from the physical card, but it doesn’t change per purchase.
That fee doesn’t even exist. Apple doesn’t charge merchants for accepting apple pay. They only charge the banks a fee.
The good thing is that by 2030, debit cards and credit cards from Mastercard will not have the magnetic stripe.
This also includes debit cards and credit cards in the USA.
10 years ago in 2015, EMV chip bank cards were started to be implemented in USA while most countries in the world that do card payments already had this tech with bank cards.
In the USA, there is no mandate to upgrade card readers. Some small businesses in USA still use magstripe only card readers.
This will start to change as Mastercard removes the magstripe in which all bank cards from Mastercard will have not magstripe by 2030 which includes the USA.
So, this means that these small businesses in USA will be required in 2027 to 2029 to update those magstripe only card readers to chip card readers. Also, all chip card readers for small businesses in USA have contactless payment.
Not in US. They originally had tap-to-pay enabled, which allowed Apple Pay to work. They have since disabled NFC payments. At least at the self checkout registers.
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I can't like this post enough. Never a cell signal and laughable WiFi in every.single.store.
