Should the article have covered ALL the businesses that don't accept Apple Pay or contactless payments? Why stop at Home Depot and Kroger?
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Walmart Still Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Many Customer Requests
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I pretty much use my Watch to pay everywhere I shop. So darn convenient. I avoid stores that don't accept it. But to each their own. I also don't shop at Walmart and would say I'm not their target audience.
By the time I get my iPhone out of my pocket, it's usually already at the Apple Pay screen urging me to click the button twice. How could it be any easier? (Maybe using NFC tags in everything and allowing people to just walk out the door and be charged for everything in their cart? Anyone remember the commercial from the NFC lobbying group? Pushing a cart out the door and waving their credit card? Someone just blindly hoping that the corporation store was charging them the price on the shelves. And I think: WHAT A FOOL!! How many times have I had to correct a cashier because something rings up at a higher price. Sometimes that inflated price is over 5 bucks!! So sure, trust a corporation to not cheat you. Sure... Talk about sheeple being led to slaughter, yikes)
Woah it works that way there for real? I have memberships at Costco and BJs, but not Sam's. They don't offer that ability as far as I know so could be a reason to switch if so.
Haven't seen a Super Target store in New England as it's just Target stores, many of which don't have a fresh produce section though some do have a frozen foods section.
That's no different than Walmart as not many stores have a fresh produce section though some do have a frozen food section.
It depends on the store.
everything is better in canada
" Walmart did start accepting Apple Pay in Canada in late 2020."
" Walmart did start accepting Apple Pay in Canada in late 2020."
Opensecrets.org. Enter the name 'Walton'. They OWN politicians. They tried to get one of their stores into a community near here. They did what they were supposed to do, they bought the state politicians, they bought many on the local board and even promised not to kill other businesses in that area, and pay a 'living wage'. They refused to do much to control their pollution from their parking lot, and offered a paltry donation to the police.
They got it on special ballots TWICE, and both times the populace voted it down, and it lost my pretty surprising amounts. They finally gave up. One federal politician slammed the residents for not 'thinking forward'. He got 6 figures from the Waltons. The store they planned would have been right downtown. Meijer opened a store just inside the towns border and did it all right, by the residents. They stepped up and promised, and delivered, a laundry list of issues that the town wanted, PLUS they didn't have the store right in the center of town. There is little argument that the economic wreckage of a Walmart store is pretty stark. They kill just about every store in the area. They use pricing and sales to drain their customers. They create a near black hole that tends to decimate surrounding businesses.
The high price of low prices.
I think it's time for the payment networks to throw down.
If you take Visa or MC, you must take NFC/Contactless. Period. You have until 2025 to comply.
This is an open standard that Walmart is going out of their way to not support for petty reasons. All card readers on the market have supported it for years now. This is anticonsumer behavior just like charging more for using a credit card, which the payment networks already forbid. Just mandate NFC and be done with it. I believe they do in other countries.
If you take Visa or MC, you must take NFC/Contactless. Period. You have until 2025 to comply.
This is an open standard that Walmart is going out of their way to not support for petty reasons. All card readers on the market have supported it for years now. This is anticonsumer behavior just like charging more for using a credit card, which the payment networks already forbid. Just mandate NFC and be done with it. I believe they do in other countries.
But you’re still storing your real card info on the merchant’s server. With apple pay, physical or online, the merchant never gets your real card details. Furthermore, apple pay doesn’t require an internet connection at the moment of paying at a physical store. Walmart Pay does need it.
The complaint is that they don't sell produce. Therefor, places that do sell produce can't compete.
That argument doesn't add up.
People are saving money by buying their non-produce at DG. Ergo, they have more money in their grocery budget to go and spend on produce elsewhere.
If your shop fails after a DG moves in, it's not because you sell produce and they don't. It's because your shop sucks. Your shop did okay when it had no competition, but the moment competition came, people didn't want yours anymore.
Where I live, we have two choices for groceries, HEB (doesn't take Apple Pay and continues to cage its checkers in plexiglas) and Walmart. The nearest Target is 60 miles away.
Another thing to consider when shopping at Wm is that Bill Gates owns a lot of shares in the company. And we all know what a ****** he is.
Another thing to consider when shopping at Wm is that Bill Gates owns a lot of shares in the company. And we all know what a ****** he is.
For real.
I hate the whole Costco experience from the moment I enter their parking lot until I finish standing in long lines (including self-checkout which can be longer than cash register lines).
The whole Sam's Club experience is great. Less parking hassles, less crowded, and yes...scan item with phone, put in cart, and when finished shopping just pay in app and walk to the exit door where they scan the QR code on your phone and verify a few items in your cart. In CA, you can't buy liquor that way though.
Look in the app for Scan-n-Go.
Please accept my apologies. I have not shopped at Walmart in over 15 years. Walmart Pay sounded like a Walmart issued credit card. Doing a little research, Walmart Pay just sounds like another high resolution consumer tracking app using a persons valid credit card issued by a major bank.
This has been so frustrating. Two of the stores I use the most don’t accept it, Home Depot and Kroger. It’s part of the reason I don’t use Apple Pay more just because I am in the habit of still using cards because I have to use cards at these two stores.
Yeah you have to still go to a check out and I also noticed it's for members only so no thanks.
No, Sam’s Club’s scan and go lets you scan your stuff, pay in the app and walk out of the store. You don’t have to go to a check out. Also, Sam’s is a members only store, not just the app. If you don’t like that it’s members only, don’t go to Sam’s at all.
Walmart and Home Depot have the worst POS systems. It’s so ancient. Their card readers are especially god awful.
This has got to be one of the funniest threads I’ve read in a while. Who shops at Walmart?
How funny.
Recently I took about 3 hours to compare prices between my grocery store and Walmart. The same canned, frozen, condiment, cleaning items, and dairy items averaged 18% cheaper at Walmart.
The amazing thing we haven’t died shopping there.
18% is worth having to reach for my wallet vs an apple device.
How funny.
Recently I took about 3 hours to compare prices between my grocery store and Walmart. The same canned, frozen, condiment, cleaning items, and dairy items averaged 18% cheaper at Walmart.
The amazing thing we haven’t died shopping there.
18% is worth having to reach for my wallet vs an apple device.
What are you talking about? WALMART DOES NOT ACCEPT CONTACTLESS OR APPLE PAY IN MEXICO, only their own app. They’re just like in the US.
It would be useless. Walmart is almost a monopoly. It’s so large and faces so little competition that no matter how many customers they lose, they won’t care. The only thing that might make Walmart budge is if they were cornered by someone -most likely the card networks- between enabling NFC or going cash only. And even then, walmart might be crazy enough to prefer to go cash only.
Sam's Club is Walmart's warehouse store. Not every state has one and things can be found at a nearby Walmart. It's more technologically advance than Costco and BJs, though that still doesn't say a lot about Walmart or Sam's Club.
Costco is technologically impaired as management refuses to upgrade its technology which is well known about Costco esp. on many online boards about Costco. It doesn't even have price check machines or wifi.
BJs is in the middle. You can buy stuff through BJs app then pick up at the nearest store nearby, if available.
Both Costco and BJs accept contactless payments aka tap and go at the registers. Both stores do accept Apple Pay.
BJs
We accept the following major credit cards:
- MasterCard®
- Visa®
- BJ's Gift Cards
- American Express®
- MasterPass®
- Discover®
- Paypal®
- Apple Pay®
- Japanese Credit Bureau
Easily shop, scan your item's barcode, pay and go with ExpressPay on the BJ's App.
Costco
U.S. Costco warehouse locations accept:
- All Visa Cards
- The Costco Anywhere Visa® Card by Citi
- Most PIN-based Debit/ATM Cards
- Costco Shop Cards*
- Cash
- Personal checks from current Costco Members
- Business checks from current Costco Business Members
- Traveler's checks
- EBT cards
- Mobile Payment (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay)
Costco does Not offer an express payment via app for in-store purchases.
