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

[PinkyMacGodess]

Every iPhone since the iPhone 6 has supported Apple Pay, so to answer your question, A LOT!

And I'm sure the droid phones are 'cheaper', and their friends tell them to not buy Apple.
Just because they sell iPhones does not mean tons of people are buying them, and of those people, know how to use Apple Pay.

I know 'rich' people that can't figure out Apple Pay, so no classism implied here...

 

[jz0309]

Mostly. It's for people who only care about price, not quality or their own time.

They offer better pricing on a lot of products, why pay more for say a bottle of shampoo compared to say CVS … but you can do with your own money whatever you please to

 

[azentropy]

So frustrating that so many of the places I shop don't support Apple Pay. I've pretty much given up on using it.

 

[Apple$]

What's funny is Walmart in Canada was one of the holdouts until the pandemic came and in Nov. 2020, Walmart Canada finally accepted contactless pay.

 

[SoldOnApple]

Walmart could add their own card to ApplePay, of course the risk is customers using a different card. Here in Australia every business supports ApplePay thanks to the banks rolling out NFC payment stations to every business in the land. In a way the Australian banks helped subsidise ApplePay adoption.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I don't see this as a big deal. Walmart has always done things their own way.

 

[mikethemartian]

True. HomeDespot DID support Apple Pay for about a week, depending on location I've been told. Their equipment CAN support it. They just refuse to re-enable it. It may not make sense to us, but apparently someone at HomeDespot thinks they are 'owning' Apple by refusing to support it (again).

It's less about honoring your customers and doing what's good for them over squeezing them for all you can get out of them, and inconveniencing them. I swore of HomeDespot for two whole months. You can do it, but I changed to Milwaukee power tools and had to get a new battery. *sigh*

Sounds just like Apple.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

I don't see this as a big deal. Walmart has always done thing their own way.

And they should be able to do that. Just like Apple should be able to do that, yet they are hit with antitrust lawsuits left and right.

 

[Mrjoedot]

Going backward

 

[Dark_Omen]

You get the shopping experience you pay for. Sleazy company, slow cashiers, no NFC payments so they can track your data, and people at the exit that think you’re obligated to show them your receipt.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

people at the exit that think you’re obligated to show them your receipt.

Well you are obligated if it is the store’s policy and those people are just doing their jobs.

 

[brownpaw]

Funny they mention the convenience of Scan & Go. The one time I tried Scan & Go, it crashed the POS and I had to rescan it all anyway.

 

[lordofthereef]

Y'all can boycott all you want, as long as I am walking out of there with $100 arcade 1 up cabinets and $2 bags of lump charcoal, I'll take the inconvenience of chip and pin. I don't shop there regularly, but brickseek has me in there 2-3 times a month.

 

[WaterOz]

If somehow this article gets Walmart to change policy (hahahahaha... right), then lets do an article on Kroger next so that I can use Apple Pay there too. Thanks. 😂

 

[ArkSingularity]

and people at the exit that think you’re obligated to show them your receipt.

With how much self-checkout theft Walmart has to combat, I don't really blame them. It's an inconvenience, but so are the higher prices that we all have to pay as a result of shoplifters.

 

[mikethemartian]

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.

It isn’t my favorite place to go but they basically sell all the same brands as other places for usually the best prices available.

 

[I7guy]

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.

Well not really. Walmart won’t get my business because they don’t take Apple Pay. I’ll buy an iPhone because it doesn’t support rcs.

 

[bradl]

You should probably go to a Walmart once a year. Do so to remind yourself just how bad they are.

Why do that, when I have People of Walmart doing that for me? 😂

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.

A previous business I was involved in taught me about the concepts of product distribution and the markups that happen. For example, let's say you have a $20 product. It doesn't matter what it is. If the store was K-Mart, they would have to pay the manufacturer for that product, get it from the manufacturer to the wholesaler's distribution center, then to the regional warehouse, then to the local warehouse, then to the store for the customer to buy. For each stop in that chain, the people involved take their cut of the cost to get that product from the manufacturer to the store. To compensate, K-Mart would mark up the product, so that $20 product from the manufacturer costs $100 for the customer to buy.

Walmart cut out the wholesaler's center, the regional warehouse, and the local warehouse by building their own distribution centers and buying their own trucks. That way they don't have to pay those costs. When it gets to the store, Walmart would undercut K-Mart by selling that same $20 product for, say, $96.77, making the customer think that they are buying it for cheaper than K-Mart; but by knocking out those wholesaler's center, and regional and local warehouses, they are pocketing the money they would spend following K-Mart's chain, while still marking up the product.

In short, you may think that you're getting that product at Walmart for cheaper, because that is what they want you to think. For cheap products like that, let alone a much better selection, I head across the street to Target, and pay the extra $.01 to $.02 more for the product... And that isn't even getting into the ethical issues I would have with Walmart, but that is part of that many reasons that I was referring to.

BL.

 

[MrMojo1]

Mostly. It's for people who only care about price, not quality or their own time.

To be fair, some Walmart stores do have fresh produce sections with some good selection of items at decent prices.
Not just poor people shop at Walmart as you'd never know that considering that the Walmarts around my area in New England actually have people who owns luxury cars like Lexus and BMWs who shop in Walmart.
Ironically, many Walmart customers own iPhones.
But in general, it's easy to stereotype the 'typical' Walmart customers. Just go to any Walmart in near urban areas and you'll see the stereotypes.
Not many cashiers left, mainly self checkout, yet Walmart recent said it would increase hiring. Very hypocritical of Walmart.
There's only 3 Sam's Clubs in New England. Look at where Walmart put their stores and the demographics of their typical customers.

 

[frenchcamp49er]

If I have to go there I make sure I use cash.

 

[oneteam]

Kroger (largest supermarket operator in the USA) doesn’t accept Apple Pay either.
I try to shop somewhere else every chance I have but they dominate the market

 

[MrMojo1]

If I have to go there I make sure I use cash.

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.

 

[rufwork]

Seems to me that Walmart is making a poor business choice by being penny-wise and pound-foolish. They’d rather lose the entire sale than let go of a marginal profit.

This obviously won’t change your mind, but their app is actually pretty good. Tells you where items are in the store, scans items to tell you the price if you can’t find it, and Walmart pay with the QR code is amazingly fast and perfectly integrated.

If there was a weird world where the two were reversed, I’d be fine. And I enjoy Apple Pay and the Apple Card too.

 

[TonyC28]

This isn’t a reason for me not to shop there. Yet. Target is slightly higher for groceries so Walmart is still the choice. My biggest annoyance with Walmart is how credit card charges stay pending for like a week before clearing.

 

[FelixDerKater]

They want to keep you in their app.