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

[bradl]

Walmart is the largest retailer in the world. Making their shoppers used Walmart Pay is how they get data about their purchasing behavior and stay competitive with Amazon (which also doesn’t accept Apple Pay). When you’re a behemoth, you can get away with not always pleasing your customers. The good news is that if you want to use Apple Pay, there are still some retailer alternatives depending on the category you shop. For pets, Chewy is amazing! And they take Apple Pay.

Amazon is different in the fact that they essentially are not a brick and mortar store, in the sense that Walmart is. They followed Dell's early model, where they didn't have a brick and mortar store (I know by extension you could say that they did with Borders/Waldenbooks in their early days), but they really don't, except in very few locations.

Also, to even counter that, by extension, they do accept Apple Pay. Keep in mind that Amazon also operates inside Whole Foods, and they definitely accept Apple Pay.

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[bradl]

I’m very sorry to hear that about your father in law. 🙏 I had COPD and Emphysema for years leading to a double lung transplant in 2016. So I’ve been through it all as far as that goes. And now am still high risk, of everything.

But I’m not quite sure if you’re a saying he got COVID from being forced to use his card vs having the option for Apple Pay instead.

If that’s the case and he was that high of risk, should’ve he been out in crowds like that to begin with?

Just trying to understand. Something I’m losing in translation.

He wasn't high risk at all. And he was actually out, conversing with people and paying for something at a POS terminal at Walmart. After coming down with it, he did the necessary contact tracing to see where it would have happened at, and the only place he deduced that it would have been acquired was at Walmart.. which isn't hard for him to see, as it is the biggest store in his current town.

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[newyorksole]

I’ll admit… I’m more of a fan of Walmart after getting Walmart+ as part of AMEX’s benefits. they have a lot of good stuff and shipping is very quick.

 

[T Coma]

Seems like snobbish behavior to think that way.

Not uncommon around here. Many insecure kids seem to rely on their entirely common iGadget as an esteem-boosting status symbol.
¯\_( ツ)_/¯

 

[duaneu]

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

QFC (owned by Kroger) does take Apple Pay.

 

[FriednTested]

And they NEVER will. Walmart is a behemoth and does what's best for Walmart. They make money off of Walmart Pay transactions with Capitol One. At one point Walmart was leaning on its suppliers not to do business with Amazon because they didn't want any of their inner dealings finding its way to Amazon.

They do here in Canada.

 

[russell_314]

I seriously literally stop shopping at Walmart JUST for this reason I go to target I’m poor but I don’t care if it cost more. Hey Walmart? Target DOES have Apple Pay

Same here. Businesses do what customers want by how the sales go. People on Reddit don’t mean anything. What counts is are people still shopping at Walmart. If the answer is yes, then clearly most people really don’t care about Apple Pay or contactless payment. If the answer is no, then Walmart will fix the problem. It’s really that simple.

If Walmart noticed a drop in sales that were shifted to another retailer that accepted Apple Pay, they would fix the problem.

 

[1557750]

He wasn't high risk at all. And he was actually out, conversing with people and paying for something at a POS terminal at Walmart. After coming down with it, he did the necessary contact tracing to see where it would have happened at, and the only place he deduced that it would have been acquired was at Walmart.. which isn't hard for him to see, as it is the biggest store in his current town.

BL.

I understand your frustration at him getting COVID. But at that time and still today, people either chose/choose to “go out and converse” and take the risk of that. I don’t see how that’s Walmarts fault.

I wish they’d get their heads out of their a**es to and add it. But everyday I take some kind of a risk leaving the house because I refuse to live in a bubble.

I’m not gonna blame my grocery store if I pick up an apple, some person touched after coughing, that just so happened to have COVID. Because I’m the idiot if I get COVID because I got home, didn’t wash the apple and then didn’t wash my hands before eating it.

 

[syklee26]

I guess we BOYCOTT Walmart until they do

Boycott Walmart because it won’t cater to Apple fanboys’ requests? Yeah, sounds about right.

 

[Rafterman]

Walmart is a behemoth and does what's best for Walmart.

To be fair, so is Apple.

 

[lartola]

And it’s not just in the US. Walmart also has stores in Canada, Mexico and several parts of Central America and they refuse to accept contactless everywhere but Canada. The same happens with some of the other holdouts sich as Home Depot and HEB.

 

[Kierkegaarden]

Another reason why I have never, and will never do business with wal-mart — not that I needed another reason. They are ruthless trash.

 

[russell_314]

I don’t like how these articles state companies don’t accept ‘Apple pay’. It’s contactless/touch to pay. Apple pay is a form of this. - take note Article author

This is MacRumors. It’s an Apple focused website, therefore it’s going to talk about Apple products like Apple Pay. If you want a site that talks about Google products, I hear android authority pretty much has that covered. I’m guessing they have a forums but since I’m not that interested in Google products I’m not over there.

 

[MatthewUT44]

the elistists of macrumors trashing walmart. Typical of apple lovers

 

[falainber]

I guess we BOYCOTT Walmart until they do

And while you are at it, you should also boycott Apple for not allowing Wal-Mart to use NFC on their devices for walmart pay.

 

[MatthewUT44]

Also it takes all of 3 seconds to scan the QR code and pay much faster than swiping my card

 

[russell_314]

And it’s not just in the US. Walmart also has stores in Canada, Mexico and several parts of Central America and they refuse to accept contactless everywhere but Canada. The same happens with some of the other holdouts sich as Home Depot and HEB.

I wonder why they make an exception for Canada. I wonder if it’s the law there that they have to accept contactless payment?

 

[chadbillington]

And they NEVER will. Walmart is a behemoth and does what's best for Walmart. They make money off of Walmart Pay transactions with Capitol One. At one point Walmart was leaning on its suppliers not to do business with Amazon because they didn't want any of their inner dealings finding its way to Amazon.

The ironic thing is that they do accept Apple Pay in Canada (as does Home Deopt).

 

[russell_314]

the elistists of macrumors trashing walmart. Typical of apple lovers

Way to bunch everyone who likes a brand into one big group. I think you just did what you were criticizing people for. Calling people who like Apple products elitists 🙄

 

[lartola]

I don’t like how these articles state companies don’t accept ‘Apple pay’. It’s contactless/touch to pay. Apple pay is a form of this. - take note Article author

That’s partly Apple’s fault. They’re so arrogant that in their advertising they implied that NFC was only used for Apple Pay. And millions of ignorant americans fell for it.

 

[MatthewUT44]

Way to bunch everyone who likes a brand into one big group. I think you just did what you were criticizing people for. Calling people who like Apple products elitists 🙄

you seem a bit upset my guy

 

[lartola]

In the US. the Walmart terminals don't support NFC. They went out of their way to get card readers that did not.

They do support it, walmart uses verifone mx925 pinpads like everyone else. Walmart just refuses to turn it on. They even went out of their way to block Samsung Pay’s MST which used the magnetic stripe readers.

 

[russell_314]

That’s partly Apple’s fault. They’re so arrogant that in their advertising they implied that NFC was only used for Apple Pay. And millions of ignorant americans fell for it.

No apple only points out Apple Pay in their advertisement because they’re not going to advertise Google pay for Google. It’s the same way common factors don’t talk about the other brands safety features when they mention their own. I think everyone knows that there are alternatives to Apple Pay, such as Google pay and Samsung pay. I don’t think millions of Americans are ignorant as you claim.

 

[russell_314]

you seem a bit upset my guy

Not upset at all. Just replying to your comment “my guy” 😂

 

[cannono]

Apple Pay fees are passed to the card issuer, not the retailer. Article says Walmart is doing it to avoid fees, but the documentation Im seeing says retailers don’t pay more for Apple Pay.