I can say that more times than one, I will go to Target and spend a little more on certain items just because of ApplePay. I know, kind of dumb, however, I’m probably not the only one that practices this.
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Walmart Still Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Many Customer Requests
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It wasn’t recent it was back in 2015 or so. Shortly after they stopped it there was a bit of an uproar and they promised they would be the country’s largest retailer of it. Yea right!
Home Depot Plans To Officially Support Apple Pay Following POS System Upgrade [U.S. Only] | iPhone in Canada
Home Depot has announced that it will official support Apple Pay all its retail locations in the United States.
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Eventually they’ll have to. Chips will go away one day and then what, they won’t accept any VISA, Mastercard or AmEx?
I’m sometimes baffled by the extreme way some folks like to talk as if they’re the most hygienic folks out there and everyone else is a germ-bag. If touching keypad - to enter pin - is so ewww, what about coins and notes, do you touch any? Any other stuff “other people used their booger pickers on” that you inadvertently touch later, like groceries, clothes, doors, bus/train seats, etc? Piety can sometimes be condescending.
Can’t answer for him, but I do the same. In Sweden most stores today are cash free and all of them accept contactless payment. So yeah, no cards and no ID.
neither does Home Depot. I bought a coffee from a mom and po shop in Regina Saskatchewan and used Apple Pay - Walmart and Home Depot booo...
There are a great many reasons to not shop at Walmart besides not accepting Apple Pay.
I think it’s obvious poor people aren’t the only ones shopping at Walmart. However if you are poor, I bet 9 times out of 10 your grocery store is Walmart.
I'm an infrequent Walmart shopper, prefer Target. But anyways, I do shop there and when I'm in the checkout line I often see a number of folks try to pay by tapping a phone, a Watch or card only to be surprised nothing happens before finally inserting a credit card. Since Walmart pay was introduced I've actually never seen anyone use it but they must have some users.
I do like the idea of their scan to avoid the checkout line feature though. Not that I'd ever sign up for their payment system so I guess I'll never use that.
But anyways, checkout lines move soooo much faster with NFC. I dislike the lines at Home Depot, too, for their lack of NFC. I keep hoping they'll upgrade their systems.
I do like the idea of their scan to avoid the checkout line feature though. Not that I'd ever sign up for their payment system so I guess I'll never use that.
But anyways, checkout lines move soooo much faster with NFC. I dislike the lines at Home Depot, too, for their lack of NFC. I keep hoping they'll upgrade their systems.
If they did accept NFC payments would sales/revenue increase? If I was a cashier there I would appreciate the extra speed in transactions.
Seems either incredibly easy to do or absolutely impossible. Depending where you are.
Same in the Netherlands. Can't remember the last time I used a card to pay for anything. And just travelled to Tuscany by car and haven't used a card the entire trip either (that includes Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria).
I find this really bizarre. In the UK there is no retailer anymore that doesn’t accept contactless cards (and thus apple/android pay). The only exceptions are those businesses that don’t take cards AT ALL e.g. some local barbers or dry cleaners (usually because of tax avoidance - and frankly even those are very very rare these days). I have not had to carry a wallet with me for years. It’s shocking how backwards you guys are in the US when it comes to this.
You're joking. Are you really wondering why these HUGE big box stores are not located in urban or high-income (desirable) areas?
The real estate costs would be astronomical.
Same in Ireland, everywhere takes contactless (even in barbers and dry cleaners!). Never carry cash anymore, no need. Initially, the only thing holding Apple Pay back, was that some places hadn't their systems and you were limited the standard contactless limit (€50 in Ireland), but that has changed.
Home Depot is the only place I shop at regularly/sem-regularly that doesn't accept Apple Pay. Everywhere else, from Target, Best Buy, supermarkets, down to the mom-and-pop pet store and the tiny co-op market in our tiny mountain town takes Apple Pay.
We don't carry personal ID in the UK. If it's ever suggested it never gets through any kind of government process. The only ID carried is by those around drinking age.
An apple user in Wal-Mart is like a billionaire at Taco Bell.
Amazon is astronomically worse than Walmart in every conceivable way.
There is literally an official image on the Jiff Peanut Butter page that shows a customer how NOT to buy a counterfeit Jiff Peanut Butter on Amazon.
98% of the products on there are copy/pasted from different random Chinese companies and you can see it if you click on them.
If you walk into a Walmart store, everything has been vetted, it’s not from random small businesses (I.e. a guy stealing things and selling counterfeits), and all of the food is fresh and has not been damaged in shipping like it is 99% of the time from Amazon. Buy candy bars on Amazon they’ll be melted, deformed logs. Buy chips and they’ll get you a bag of nearly-expired crushed up shards.
Isn’t it though? Everywhere in the UK and Aus has contactless which all works with Apple Pay.
Didn’t America only get chip and pin in the past 5 years? Seems very much like a national issue.