Sure they can. They can offer a discount for cash, thereby giving cash buyers a lower price.
Other retailers flat out add 3% to the "cash price" if you pay with a card. Some call it a "non cash adjustment" as shown in the attached receipt.
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Walmart Still Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Many Customer Requests
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Other retailers flat out add 3% to the "cash price" if you pay with a card. Some call it a "non cash adjustment" as shown in the attached receipt.
Yep, this is the way places tend to get around that rule
We fought a war so we don't have to be subject to the whims of a king.
Lol in what confused alternate reality do you live? NOT EVEN VISA CHARGES SO LITTLE FOR ITS TRANSACTIONS, and it charges merchants.
OMG!!! Pre-Amazon Whole Foods was A-MAZING!!! The one at Columbus Circle is (was) an amazing place where I actually ate at after landing at LGA and having a 4 hour cab ride to the hotel. Yeah... Went to Columbus Circle and walked around a bit, and saw Whole Foods so stopped in (first time ever). Wow. Lots of stuff, and clean(ish) and a smorgasbord of tasty stuff to eat. It was late dinner time, and the seating area was still clean (for New York). Now? The seating area is usually a hectic disgusting mess. Some stuff I remember seeing isn't there anymore. It's still a good place to grab-and-go for lunch/snack/quickie dinner. Things change. It happens, unfortunately.
The few “friends “ I have aren’t stuck up snobs and Walmart will be fine without your “friends “ …
LOL the LEAST important factor I consider when choosing a store is the exact method used to debit my account. Most of the time at WM I use scan and go anyway. Scan each item as it goes into my cart(If I think ahead I have bags in the cart at the ready). The app keeps a running total including tax, then at the register I scan a QR code in the register screen, tap through a couple of more screens on the app,and my account is debited(I don't use credit cards) and a receipt is generated and I'm on my way.
Do I love Apple pay? Yes! Is it a big freaking deal not to have a merchant accept in in the age of chip cards? Nope. That said If I'm not using scan and go I use my debit card instead of walmart pay because it's faster and more intuitive.
But really getting bent out of shape over it is the epitome of first world problems.
I get that.
Originally, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and the drug stores formed a group to do contactless payments securely. Walmart is the only one that stuck with the more unique idea, and they have unique card readers that are likely much less expensive than even what the dollar stores use.
It will takes rules and regulations for Walmart to change.
These boards ooze nauseating snobbery every time walmart comes up.
Interesting. I have disliked Albertsons from my time living in Florida but when I returned to Philadelphia, they had gutted ACME of local specialties. When they bought Safeway, I thought that it was the end.
Kroger is screwy, but they have their act together more than Albertsons. Still, when I was in Ohio, I shopped at Target for most everything.
Contactless payments certainly do in many cases, not just Apple Pay. It definitely saves money for business when transactions are nearly instantaneous. Why did credit cards become so popular? Convenience. The same is already happening for contactless payments.
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It’s probably less about the expense of NFC, which is pretty cheap these days. It is more that by being the payment provider, Walmart can get more data on it’s customers and use that to market to them.
It says that those executives are idiots. That's exactly what we can say about the executives at Target and CVS who dragged their heels on accepting Apple Pay.
And you think that Target and CVS should have continued to refuse to accept Apple Pay cards?
Give us your analysis of the financial advantages of refusing to accept this service. Include a discussion why Target and CVS should—or should not—follow the same advice.
Dazzle us with your analysis, monstermash!
So I am becoming a huge fan of Apple Pay since getting their CC. I mean taking my 13 mini out and double clicking to get 2% back everywhere is so freaking easy. Thinking about putting it on my AW, but that means a password which I don't particularly care for.
Looked into getting the Walmart Capital One CC and LOL they only offer 2% back in store. 1.5% cash back there is fine with my other CC.
As a matter of fact, I read Meijer and Aldi takes Apple Pay. Walmart is now not my go to grocery store anymore. And not only for the reason Meijer sells Dirty Bastards ale and Walmart does not.
I have the Capital One Walmart cc and for a year I get 5% back when selecting Walmart Pay. It’s 2% back in store and online if not using Walmart Pay.
With Walmart Pay I never had to have the cashier touch my phone. The Walmart App is already open in my phone and in store mode when I shop at Walmart. Once at the register and my purchases are scanned, I scan the QR code in the app and select my Capital One Walmart CC for 5% cash back.
I’m not sure. I’m at $69 since the end of August.
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Whole foods still is amazing and they take Apple Pay. The one near me is an Amazon hub plus Whole Foods. Stuff we can’t get anywhere else and we have shopping galore in my neck of the woods.
That old tired chestnut lol. I love how ‘some Americans’ seem to think Europeans are hurt by these sorts of statements. Absolutely not at all btw, we should really celebrate it too really but for some reason we don’t.
The easiest solution is for customers to default to traditional cards and cash payments in Walmart... and avoid their App/System of 'convenient' payment at all costs, so that they conclude it's not worth it and shut down the project / This is the kind of boycott that would get attention 