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

ouruniverse06131986 said:
Literally I was even surprised when my local smaller mom and pop shop little store in the corner takes Apple Pay.
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Curiously, in Mexico it was exactly the other way around: restaurants, gas stations and small mom and pop shops were among the first to be ready to accept apple pay thanks to the use of portable standalone card readers that came from the bank ready to use and with contactless enabled. The big retailers, on the other hand, with their expensive integrated POS systems (computer + barcode scanner + pinpad) were the last to start accepting apple pay, and many of them still don’t to this day.
 
webkit said:
By a long shot?? I don't believe the average income of a Walmart customer is as low as you think and/or the income needed to "afford to be in the Apple ecosystem" is as high as you think.

Walmart has been selling iPhones since late 2008 and was the fourth major U.S. retailer (behind Apple, AT&T and Best Buy) to start selling iPhones.
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Bet they weren't pro maxes.
 
webkit said:
Again, I don't believe the average income of a Walmart customer is as low as you think and/or the income needed to "afford to be in the Apple ecosystem" is as high as you think.

Besides, the discussion was about customers using Apple Pay at Walmart. You don't need to have a Pro Max to use Apple Pay.
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So. How long have you worked at/for Way-Mart?
 
xbjllb said:
So. How long have you worked at/for Way-Mart?
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I have never worked at/for Walmart. I rarely even shop there.

Again, your comment that "anyone who can afford to be in the Apple ecosystem is just not the target Wal-Mart customer by a long shot" was simply wrong, and whether or not Walmart customers have Pro Max iPhones is irrelevant as you don't need a Pro Max to use Apple Pay.
 
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xbjllb said:
Bet they weren't pro maxes.
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I believe walmart does sell ALL iphone models, even the pros. And at better prices than Apple itself. It’s weird because usually having a middle man makes things more expensive, but with Apple it’s the other way around: buy directly from Apple and it’s more expensive than buying from a 3rd party reseller such as walmart.
 
lartola said:
I believe walmart does sell ALL iphone models, even the pros. And at better prices than Apple itself. It’s weird because usually having a middle man makes things more expensive, but with Apple it’s the other way around: buy directly from Apple and it’s more expensive than buying from a 3rd party reseller such as walmart.
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Wal-mart has been notorious for decades for demanding lower prices from manufacturers. There have been documentary reports on it.
 
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lartola said:
I believe walmart does sell ALL iphone models, even the pros. And at better prices than Apple itself. It’s weird because usually having a middle man makes things more expensive, but with Apple it’s the other way around: buy directly from Apple and it’s more expensive than buying from a 3rd party reseller such as walmart.
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A common reason is that the discounted phones sold by third parties are often tied to particular carriers. For example, aren't the discounted iPhones sold by Walmart all locked to either Straight Talk, Walmart Family Mobile or some other carrier? They may still be good prices/deals but it's not quite the same thing as buying an unlocked phone from Apple.
 
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webkit said:
A common reason is that the discounted phones sold by third parties are often tied to particular carriers. For example, aren't the discounted iPhones sold by Walmart all locked to either Straight Talk, Walmart Family Mobile or some other carrier? They may still be good prices/deals but it's not quite the same thing as buying an unlocked phone from Apple.
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THANk you!
 
zorinlynx said:
Walmart and Home Depot are the only local retailers that don't take contactless. Literally everyone else does, from big supermarkets like Publix to the tiniest small business.

It's a bit absurd how far they've taken this stubborn refusal to get with the times. All they have to do is a change a configuration bit in their payment terminals and it will be supported. That's it. One software change.

Unfortunately it's not a big enough annoyance to make people not shop there, myself included.
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Exactly you can go to Musikfest vendors or even small fair vendors take contactless.
 
webkit said:
A common reason is that the discounted phones sold by third parties are often tied to particular carriers. For example, aren't the discounted iPhones sold by Walmart all locked to either Straight Talk, Walmart Family Mobile or some other carrier? They may still be good prices/deals but it's not quite the same thing as buying an unlocked phone from Apple.
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It’s almost the same. Carriers are no required to unlock the phone upon request anyway unless it’s being financed, in which case they will only unlock it once it’s fully paid.
 
zorinlynx said:
Walmart and Home Depot are the only local retailers that don't take contactless. Literally everyone else does, from big supermarkets like Publix to the tiniest small business.

It's a bit absurd how far they've taken this stubborn refusal to get with the times. All they have to do is a change a configuration bit in their payment terminals and it will be supported. That's it. One software change.

Unfortunately it's not a big enough annoyance to make people not shop there, myself included.
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It will never be a big enough annoyance. Heck, I’m even surprised they didn’t go cash only and save on card network fees. Even cash only wouldn’t be a big enough annoyance to make people not shop at Walmart, given the usual reasons why people still shop there.
 
compwiz1202 said:
Not just banking, most tech. I read articles about what is in other countries and I'm like why isn't that here
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It depends. What countries ? In Germany, for example, it's still 1980s in some ways - paper, paper, paper, and more paper. And cash. And physical keys. Even to get access to airport terminal, they used a large metal key instead of swiping a card. At least was that way back in 2018 when I was there the last time. In Britain, I didn't see any major tech breakthrough in everyday life either, although I've only spent about ten days in London and a couple days each in Leeds / Cardiff so perhaps I didn't have enough exposure to their ways. The mobile internet speed was ok, not in any way different from what I got back home. British food did live up to its reputation, though ;).
 
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lartola said:
It’s almost the same. Carriers are no required to unlock the phone upon request anyway unless it’s being financed, in which case they will only unlock it once it’s fully paid.
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By not quite the same, I was more referring to the carrier promotional arrangements which help bring down Walmart (and other third-party retailer) phone prices. Without the various carrier tie-ins, Walmart wouldn't be discounting some phones as they do.

Many consumers who buy locked phones from places like Walmart will stick with that particular carrier longer term regardless of how quickly or easily it may be able to be unlocked. This is a reason why carriers are willing to incentivize (resulting in lower prices) phones.
 
Oh good old CurrentC. Anyone remember that? When Wal*Mart and others attempted to kick that off, and the stupid QR Code garbage, I stopped shopping at those retailers. Thankfully Target and Best Buy woke up and dropped that game.

Nearly 10 years later, and well after MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange) /CurrentC folded (which they backed), Walmart is still holding out.

Good for them.

Sadly my Wallet doesn't work there.
 
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840quadra said:
Walmart is still holding out.
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They seem to be less doing it for lower fees these days and more out of a belief that everything will eventually be done online. For example, they're always pushing delivery and curbside pickup the rare times I have to step foot in one.

Whether that future will materialize before they're basically forced to accept contactless (by virtue of everyone else doing so), on the other hand, is still unknown.
 
What did the police have to do with any of that ? They didn’t just randomly snatch her weeks later - she was in their system as a wanted person, so most likely there was an outstanding arrest warrant.

It’s all on the store management and security.
 
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garyjones027 said:
Main reason why you should always avoid Walmart stores of USA.

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I'm sure some stores are overly aggressive, but I've been using self-checkouts in Walmart and many other stores for decades and have literally never had a single problem that wasn't easily resolved in a matter of minutes. I even forgot to scan something once and all I had to do was go over to customer service and pay for it. I feel like there are a lot of missing details whenever we get one of these "I forgot to scan something and they threw me in jail!" stories. Not to mention that a common tactic of thieves is to scan most of their things and purposely "forget" to scan a few.
 
Don't count on Walmart getting Apple Pay anytime soon, they just released/are releasing a network of EV Chargers that.....only take Walmart Pay.

 
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