No it wouldn't. They could still ask for your phone number to track your purchase before you pay.
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Walmart Still Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Many Customer Requests
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I use it pretty often. It’s inoffensive and just works, which is more than I can say for Kroger pay. It also gives me a history of the stuff I’ve bought, which is handy for “how long ago did we buy that tub of sour cream?” moments when we’re in the store trying to decide if we should buy a new tub. I’m 100% certain that Walmart is using this to build a detailed profile of how often I buy sour cream and will use it to determine whether I should get mailed a coupon for frozen tacquitos to go with all of this sour cream, but I’m comfortable with that.
Safari is underlining “tacquitos” as if it’s not a real word. I say it is.
Pre-pandemic I would get some very confused checkers because you don’t get a physical receipt when you use WP. So they would see me pay, they would turn to their register, their hand would go into the space in the air to catch the impeding receipt and then it just wouldn’t show up. Post-pandemic they seem way more used to it.
I doubt most people would take kindly to being forced to type their phone number to make a purchase, and of course if they make it optional, barely anyone will do it.
Walmart stock up over $2 today, despite the boycotts for not accepting apple pay
That is incorrect. I know several stores that charge extra if you are using a credit card.
Same reason why walmart doesn’t accept it. What’s shocking is that they seem to adopt this policy internationally with few exceptions such as walmart in canada. Walmart, Home Depot and HEB all have stores in Mexico and all of them refuse to activate contactless on their pinpads just as in the US.
At least HEB has portable wireless card readers they use for deliveries and curbside pickup and those have contactless enabled, but the other two not even that: Home Depot only has pinpads and walmart puts its own software on the wireless card readers and disables contactless instead of using them as they come, with the bank’s software, as other supermarkets do.
If they ask for it, you can always refuse to provide it. If they force you to use your actual physical card, as they do, they will get it when you pay without you even knowing or noticing. They obviously prefer the latter scenario.
I suspect that there are people who would find managing extra cards dedicated to specific uses to be, err.. um… tedious.
I personally don’t care what you think, again, if putting your cc in for30 is tedious, you’re lazy
Likewise mate.
What a weird comment! All some of us are saying is that contactless is pretty universal in Europe. Only my 89 year old mother-in-law uses chip and pin but she also uses contactless cards. The young 66 year olds like me use Apple Pay ... everywhere.
Our King wants us to use Apple Pay and contactless though and the perception is it has been forced on us without our permission lol.
Paying for items via NFC (Apple Pay included) has pretty much taken over in UK and Europe for nearly everything, accelerated by the pandemic. Where I live we even hop on and off buses and trams (streetcars) with just our phone or card. Insane that Walmart is so backward.
No doubts. I mean, some kind taking few seconds to insert a credit card "tedious". It takes all kinds I guess.
You seem to forget in countries where nearly all payments are contactless, the process is much quicker. Chip and pin works for Americans and that is great, but in other countries chip and pin is an old method and we’ve moved on. If I can get through a checkout payment screen in 10 seconds as opposed to 50 seconds, that’s worthwhile for me. Shopping is tedious at the best of times and Apple Pay/Android Pay/Tap to pay is so much better.
That's only if the walmart app is on your home screen. If not, then it's swipe up to unlock phone, swipe over one or two screens to the shopping folder, tap to open folder, then tap again to open walmart app, then tap to open services, then tap walmart pay. That's 7 taps vs two.
Incorrect. When you do curbside pickup at HEB they do not bring card readers, you pay when you order on the website. Unless they changed something recently. I haven't seen a single store that has wireless pinpads, either.
The only thing cool about WM is the stores with that tower where you can pickup your order. I would go back to working at a WM just to be support for that thing. We were helping others as customers when we first encountered it
Exactly
Apple: Double tap scan face ding done or touch ding done
Google: Unlock phone ding done
EDIT: Plus you can use AP GP SP nearly everywhere not just WM. I rolled on the floor laughing when WM once stated WP was more convenient.
False. I don't carry a wallet anymore because literally no stores are out there that don't accept Apple Pay.
Yes the drive thru pickup is beyond compare, even with the added the stupid space number sign. Clientele is better. You can actually find someone to help. They don't put nine dollar cables behind glass locked.Apple Pay issues aside, the appeal of Target is a mystery to me. It seems like just a more expensive version of Walmart to me.
All I can guess is that people pay a little more to shop there so that they don't have to deal with the pleasures of Walmart (and reduce the chance of being involved in a violent situation)
"The in-store shopping experience at Target is miles beyond the typical Walmart shopping experience. However, it comes at a cost and is balanced by Walmart’s far-better online shopping interface. Target has wider aisles, less crowded shelves, department store-like merchandising, and trendy design touches. All these details make it feel a bit more elevated than a waltz through Walmart."
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But again, it is a rare occasion that I go to either Target or Walmart. For the kinds of stuff they sell, I go to Costco, Aldi, Shop & Save, or online to Amazon.
Yea are we still shopping somewhere that uses dial up for the CC network??? do they still whip out the machine to imprint your card on the receipt? 30s would be an eternity today. Even the time some stores took to approve a chip transaction was crazy. Most were near instant but some were unusually slow