What does this mean? Walmart sells apple devices. Walmart is great for cheap stuff during inflation and recession. But I don’t know anyone devoted to it…that’s Target😉
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Walmart Still Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Many Customer Requests
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Lol. Not having Apple Pay support is a bummer but I save a great deal shopping at Walmart for common household products and groceries. Even more so in this recession. When my usual grocery store has a jar of Helmand mayonnaise for 8.99 and Walmart has it for 4.88 it matters. Just one of a hundred examples.
Walmart wanted to force everyone to use their own system. The world preferred NFC over the WM method. The Evil Mart of W is too prideful to admit they have lost.
No skin off my nose; I still carry some physical cards for any location that doesn't take Apple Pay.
And Walmart is still a good place to find stuff on the cheap, regardless of those who live on their high horses.
And Walmart is still a good place to find stuff on the cheap, regardless of those who live on their high horses.
Well they do sell iPhones so probably a lot.
I must be weird. I own various apple products and have shopped at Walmart. I never felt out of place or that it was beneath me. Seems like snobbish behavior to think that way.
I use *gasp* Walmart Pay! I still traverse the world with just a phone and rarely run into any issues.
The spokesperson forgot to include a word in that sentence, so I went ahead and added it.
Oh yeah.
I studied retail in college for a while. It's all psychology. They loved to use the example of a local store that was absolutely filthy. The carts were crap, the aisles were communicable, the restrooms were nearly the sight of biological disaster, and yet their prices were between 10 and 20% higher than most other local stores. Heck, 7-11 was cheaper for a lot of the stuff they had in common. YET: The 'poor' and 'uneducated' swore that store was THE PLACE to buy their groceries. They WORSHIPED that place. They did monster business for ADC, and all the other 'social programs', and made their owners really wealthy. They closed down though. Why? Not only did their take advantage of their customers, they were caught screwing over their employees too. The state closed them down from what I heard. 'Labor violations'... *UCK*
Oh, if you do shop at Walmart, don't buy their salmon...
They are not alone. Neither does Kroger accept ApplePay. I hate having to manually open my wallet and insert my CC into a machine. ApplePay is so much faster and more secure.
A quick search on Twitter reveals that Walmart faces numerous requests to accept Apple Pay on a daily basis, but the big-box retailer still does not accept the iPhone's tap-to-pay service at its over 4,700 stores across the United States.
Walmart has instead committed to its own payments service called Walmart Pay, available through the Walmart app on the iPhone. Instead of using NFC technology like Apple Pay and many other mobile wallets, Walmart Pay allows customers to scan a QR code displayed at checkout to pay for their purchase with a payment card stored in the app.
"We do not accept NFC and instead have implemented convenient solutions, such as Walmart Pay, that provide our customers easy, touchless payments on any smartphone," a Walmart spokesperson told MacRumors this week. "We have also invested in innovative technologies that go beyond payments, such as Scan & Go, which allow Sam's Club and Walmart+ members to bypass the checkout altogether."
There are certainly some benefits for Walmart in pushing its own mobile payments service, including getting more customers to download the Walmart app, being able to track a customer's purchase history, and avoiding Apple Pay fees, but it's clear that Walmart is ignoring one of its customers' most frequent requests as a result.
Apple Pay launched just over eight years ago, on October 20, 2014. In a press release earlier this year, Apple said that Apple Pay is accepted at more than 90 percent of U.S. retailers, with some major holdouts including Walmart, The Home Depot, Lowe's, and Kroger. Walmart did start accepting Apple Pay in Canada in late 2020.
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I already do. I haven't been to a Walmart in years. Why would I? Amazon, Target, Costco.
Welcome to MACrumors, it’s about Apple here…
Actually, not knocking Walmart Pay, since I've never used it, and almost always forget it's a thing. I'd even have to research how to use it, and what the benefits are! 😂
But in the meantime, nothing wrong with just reaching for the wallet instead of the phone to pay.
Careful. The elitists will tell you Target is also only for poor people and beneath an Apple user.
People that own Apple devices SEE the value in them. There are people that can't see the value in anything, and yes they are often 'poor', but they are also not very 'bright'? My words, my opinion... *shrug*
EDIT: Part of this comment was the issues with my mom. She felt computers and anything computerized was 'far too complicated' and actually feared some of it. I showed her how to do so many things, and even got her a Kindle, and an iPod, and got her to be less intimidated by technology, and she was learning to accept it, but it was a struggle at times. My sibs didn't try with her, and I found that unfortunate. She was also devoted to Walmart, and only in her last 5 years or so of her life started shopping elsewhere. I don't know how much was comfort, fear, habit, rutted, *shrug*. Opening her eyes was interesting. I've mentioned produce, because she called me up excitedly talking about the produce at Publix. She woke to a brighter better world. So my above statement was perhaps a little harsh, but there are people that refuse to raise their head and look around at where they are and what they are doing to themselves. *shrug*
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Much like Apple, Walmart probably doesn’t care if they loose a few fringe customers over their business model if most of their customers are willing to go along.
Yes they do. Customers can contactless-ly scan a QR code to pay with Walmart’s own payment method.
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Every iPhone since the iPhone 6 has supported Apple Pay, so to answer your question, A LOT!
I expect that Walmart, like any company, will do what it thinks is in its best interest. They won’t support Apple Pay until not doing so becomes too detrimental to them.
HEB in Texas doesn’t accept Apple Pay either. It sucks.
Well last time I was at a Best Buy they allow pin bypass via ctls with the red bottom but they don't make it that easy.