Walmart Still Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Many Customer Requests

[ApplesAreSweet&Sour]

There are other ways to track customers while still offering Apple Pay. For instance with loyalty cards that offer discounts.

In my country (Belgium) every store offers support for Apple Pay and as far as I know no store can block it because it’s an NFC based bank card, like any other regular bank card.

Exactly. No store in Europe is able to deny Apple Pay as its really just another type of NFC payment charged from your debit or credit card(s) equivalent to a contactless card.

Evil E.U. regulations and bureaucracy getting in the way of businesses’ rights to make payments unnecessarily tedious for consumers just to make more money or gather data.

 

[VulchR]

I guess we BOYCOTT Walmart until they do

Or pay them in pennies. 😈

Anyway, it's Walmart - what did people expect other than 'company money'?

I don’t like how these articles state companies don’t accept ‘Apple pay’. It’s contactless/touch to pay. Apple pay is a form of this. - take note Article author

Precisely. Apple Pay is simply a secure way of verifying the contactless transaction. Financial services in the US are user-vindictive because institutions make money from them. It almost makes you want to get into cryptocurrency. Almost.

 

[JBGoode]

You can scan stuff as you pick it off the shelf at Wal-Mart and quickly pay at the checkout. I never remember that while I'm in there but it seems to me that's more convenient than Apple Pay. The WalMart app is actually very useful.

 

[MyOwnDrummer]

Eliminate the bigotry and ignorance from these comments and there wouldn’t be much left.

*Walmart has contactless pay plus digital receipts. Arguably faster and more convenient than Apple Pay.

*Walmart sells many quality items.

I meant NFC…you know, the standard contactless payment protocol in most of the world

Oh, sorry I couldn’t read your mind.

 

[imaginex20]

I go to Palm Springs every year and the Ralphs Grocery Store chain does not accept Apple Pay either at this point in time. Very odd.

I just did a Google search and apparently Kroger owns Ralph’s. Kroger doesn’t offers Apple Pay either.

Another interesting thing is Kroger just recently made an offer to acquire Albertson’s, the parent company that owns Safeway/Vons. Safeway offers Apple Pay and they better not take it away.

 

[MyOwnDrummer]

ApplePay is not about contactless so much as security. Your card info is not stored on your device. Once the initial setup is complete, an unrelated number is stored in the secure onclave which is then used to communicate with the bank in a one time transaction token that goes away after payment. This is about as secure are you can get other than paying cash. Contactless like WalMart and Kroger use, connects to your credit card or bank account so might as well be the same as using the card itself only you dont need the card. There are no additional security benefits, only convenience. I appreciate that and use Kroger pay but ApplePay would be a better option.

That’s a fair (and accurate) criticism.

 

[Coochie Boogs]

“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy” j/k I don’t shop at Walmart, and never will, so many better options.

 

[expectdelay]

I guess just like Apple not willing to adopt RCS? 😆
Walmart does what it does because it can, and it's not stopping people from shopping at Walmart.

100% not true. I absolutely don't shop at Walmart ever and it's directly because of their business practices (largely how they pay their staff, but other things as well.) I know plenty of people who do the same.

 

[belvdr]

“You will never find a more wretched hive or scum and villainy” j/k I don’t shop at Walmart, and never will, so many better options.

As long as you're not a victim of the weekly shootings near my local Walmart, there are some savings to be had.

 

[rebelrogue42]

Well they do sell iPhones so probably a lot.

Wouldn’t no NFC mean no GooglePay and for newer phones no Samsung Pay either? Not just excluding iPhones.

edit: Meant to reply to original poster regarding Walmart shoppers don't own iPhones

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Umm, are you inferring Walmart customers are not sophisticated enough to use Apple Pay?

FIRST HAND TOO!!

My mom was devoted to Walmart. She never shopped anywhere else. I was out with her and bought some things, not at a Walmart, and used Apple Pay. She was shocked, and proceeded to parrot a bunch of lies and distortions about it, using it, protecting my finances, etc. I was shocked. I assured her that no, Apple isn't selling my soul, no Apple isn't cheating me, no Apple isn't doing anything nefarious through or with Apple Pay. My sister set it up for her, and she still refused to use it, but did ask me why, if it's so good, Walmart isn't using it. Good question.

But, yes, I was indirectly implying that they, very generally, are not very sophisticated. It's a general truth. I mean, if they knew how badly they were being played by the Walton family, I'd doubt many would ever shop there again. All the heinous things that corporation does is so unethical, but they get away with it. Being America's number one employer...

 

[DominikHoffmann]

I shop at Home Depot, Kroger and Walmart. That they don’t accept Apple Pay really sucks!

Maybe Apple can sweeten the deal with those merchants, so that they will finally bring Apple Pay in.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Ralph’s / Kroger too. Used to be annoying, but once I got the app setup it’s fine.

I fear more of what their apps are potentially doing and harvesting from users. Call me paranoid, but time after time corporations involved in that kind of crap are found to be spying on their customers in some way.

 

[AppliedMicro]

Maybe they force a compromise. In order to use ApplePay, you scan a loyalty card first.

The card schemes (Mastercard, VISA, AMEX) wouldn’t allow that. And rightly so.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

Walmart Pay? Never used it. But how can getting your phone out, needing to find and open their app, navigate to the screen to produce a QR code, put the QR code up to the scanner and hope it scans any more convenient than putting my Apple Watch up to the pay terminal to pay?

 

[Rogifan]

Why is this article just about Walmart when Home Depot and Kroger don’t support contactless payments either? And why is this framed as not supporting Apple Pay when they don’t support any contactless payments?

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Sounds just like Apple.

So why are you here?

 

[Rogifan]

You'll be lucky to find a live cashier as there's hardly any cashiers. Walmart has increased the self checkout areas and many, if not all, of the machines don't take cash.

Yes, the Walmart I sometimes shop at (because certain grocery items are much cheaper than my local grocery store) usually has maybe one or two checkouts open and the line to use self-checkout is a mile long. Very annoying.

 

[AppliedMicro]

And why is this framed as not supporting Apple Pay when they don’t support any contactless payments?

It’s an Apple-centric website/forum.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple Pay users are more vocal (online) than users of other contactless payment methods (such as users of contactless physical cards).

 

[Rogifan]

That's actually an interesting thing. I've only seen Super Targets back in the midwest; there are 3 around my mother's house in Omaha, and a few in Oklahoma City. They are physically bigger than Walmart. Elsewhere, the regular Targets I have been to also have grocery stores in them, and are just as big as Walmart. So it's dozens either way between Target and Walmart, and Super Target and Super Walmart. The only difference I have seen is that some Walmarts have their own fuel stations, where Target doesn't.

I think Target is no longer using the Super Target branding. There’s one store near me which is a full grocery store and it’s just called Target.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

I demand the ability to go into a store and have them support the method of payment that I choose. I hate touching POS systems, and hate having to use their 'pens', and that strong dislike predated the pandemic. So aside from their agenda, I have zero need or desire to interact with anything at any Walmart store or related company. Tractor Supply also refuses to do NFC, and have also changed what they carry, so they are off my list too.

Apple Pay is easy, secure, almost effortless. It's the way things are going in the future, and people/corporations need to realize that.

I refuse to participate in a payment system (as much as I can) that allows the store to track me, to market to me, to encourage me to expose my life to them. Nope...

 

[ProfessionalFan]

I have heard nothing but great things about the mythical "pub sub".

I never tried it but I feel like it will be a letdown at this point, it has been hyped so much for years to me.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

You can scan stuff as you pick it off the shelf at Wal-Mart and quickly pay at the checkout. I never remember that while I'm in there but it seems to me that's more convenient than Apple Pay. The WalMart app is actually very useful.

It'd be even better if you could, like at their Sam's Club membership warehouse, just scan stuff, put in cart, pay in app and walk out the door. No waiting in line.

 

[MrMojo1]

It’s an Apple-centric website/forum.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple Pay users are more vocal (online) than users of other contactless payment methods (such as users of contactless physical cards).

Walmart is phasing in quickly the self checkout stations instead of hiring live cashiers yet the company continually (falsely) says that it is doing things to help its customers and expand their shopping experience.

Have You Seen These NEW Changes at Walmart Self-Checkout?

What do you think about this?

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[Attirex]

Wow, 14 pages of comments on an article about paying for stuff at Walmart. Impressive....I guess?