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

RalfTheDog said:
Mostly. It's for people who only care about price, not quality or their own time.
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Arrogance is bliss? Yes, I care about not wasting money at other places for stuff all stores stock, like popular brand food, dish soap, laundry soap, vitamins, powder.....etc.....etc....etc. It is the same brands and I save $100+ per week at Walmart compared to other places. I also shop at Target, and my grocery store for things that Walmart does not carry.

BTW, my household income is north of 450k, in our house we have 5 iPhones, 6 iPad's, 4 Apple TV's, 5 AirPod Pro's, 4 Apple Watches including my new Ultra, 3 Macbooks (all using Apple silicon) and I typically drive my wife's X5 xDrive40i as my GMC Sierra Denali 2500 can a PITA to park at times.

How does all that work out for your arrogant formula of who shops at Walmart? Oh, and my arms gets a workout pulling that heavy credit card out of my wallet and inserting it into the payment terminal.
 
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TheMacDaddy1 said:
Arrogance is bliss? Yes, I care about not wasting money at other places for stuff all stores stock, like popular brand food, dish soap, laundry soap, vitamins, powder.....etc.....etc....etc. It is the same brands and I save $100+ per week at Walmart compared to other places. I also shop at Target, and my grocery store for things that Walmart does not carry.

BTW, my household income is north of 450k, in our house we have 5 iPhones, 6 iPad's, 4 Apple TV's, 5 AirPod Pro's, 4 Apple Watches including my new Ultra, 3 Macbooks (all using Apple silicon) and I typically drive my wife's X5 xDrive40i as my GMC Sierra Denali 2500 can a PITA to park at times.

How does all that work out for your arrogant formula of who shops at Walmart? Oh, and my arms gets a workout pulling that heavy credit card out of my wallet and inserting it into the payment terminal.
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Hope things get better for you.
 
subjonas said:
I expect that Walmart, like any company, will do what it thinks is in its best interest. They won’t support Apple Pay until not doing so becomes too detrimental to them.
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Exactly this. Until Walmart see a hit from not supporting Apple pay, they could care less. Apple pay is great, but it is not that big of a deal to pull out my CC.
 
normally, I would never side with Walmart... but in this, I have to say that Walmart Pay is pretty easy to use... AT WALMART.... I just scan the QR code on the screen and pay... my Walmart receipt is instantly visible on my phone. I don't think that's possible if Walmart allows Apple Pay?(unless they work something out to link Walmart account and Apple Card)
 
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bradl said:
Not for nothing, but that "not caring" and "lack of laziness" at stores is what got my father-in-law put on the shelf with long COVID, and needing nebulizer treatments for the rest of his life, while previously he was able to travel around the country, doing power plant startups.

I'll take my better chances being "lazy."

BL.
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?????????????????????? Soooo, Walmart is the reason your father-in-law caught COVID and needs nebulizer treatments for the rest of his life?

That is SOME claim. How do you even begin to back that up??????
 
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Who even goes to the store nowadays ?

That is weird.

Soon all stores will be warehouses mostly.
 
BenGoren said:
“There are certainly some benefits for Walmart in pushing its own mobile payments service, including getting more customers to download the Walmart app, being able to track a customer's purchase history, and avoiding Apple Pay fees.”

Those are benefits for Walmart, yes. But they are costs for me — costs that I’m uninterested in paying, at any price.

It’s Walmart’s choice to not permit me to use the payment method of my choice. But then it’s also my choice to not do business with Walmart.

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.

Especially consider: I’m increasingly likely to be out-and-about with just my watch, no phone. So my payment options are often Apple Pay on the watch or a physical credit card, with Apple Pay far and away my preferred method. Never mind having Walmart track me; why on Earth should I want to carry a phone just for the “convenience” of digging it out of my pocket at Walmart, unlocking it, firing up an app, and waiting for it to download a barcode when I can even more easily dig out my card?

Whole Paycheck started doing that nonsense after they got bought by Amazon. I almost never shop there any more, either, and certainly don’t bother with their app.

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... So I take it that Americans don't use paper money anymore? I like paper money: it's anonymous and accepted in just about any merchant of a country. It's only become annoying if the value of its largest denominator tends not to buy things that you need.
 
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I think I used Apple Pay at Walmart's biggest threat the other day - Dollar General.

No, seriously, Walmart has cited Dollar General as the company that concerns them most on more than one occasion.

And based on my experience, it makes sense. Dollar General's prices are competitive with Walmart and the selection is ok, but they're vastly more convenient - Dollar General is generally half as far away from customers as Walmart is, and the stores are much more compact so you can be in and out much quicker (and Apple Pay helps shave a few seconds here in that regard.)

You might think I'm crazy here, but it seems to me that since I took a closer look at my local Dollar General, I'm thinking I'm probably going to replace ~80% of my trips to Walmart with trips to Dollar General instead.
 
Paddle1 said:
It's very surprising that Canada is seemingly so ahead of the US in contactless payments. This is more than just Apple Pay.
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Most of the developed world is and has been ahead of the US in contactless and other electronic payments.
 
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iDarth_Betar said:
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.
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There is EXACTLY no way this person can prove that shopping at Walmart and using a CC vs Apple pay did ANYTHING to ANYONE.
 
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TheMacDaddy1 said:
Arrogance is bliss? Yes, I care about not wasting money at other places for stuff all stores stock, like popular brand food, dish soap, laundry soap, vitamins, powder.....etc.....etc....etc. It is the same brands and I save $100+ per week at Walmart compared to other places. I also shop at Target, and my grocery store for things that Walmart does not carry.

BTW, my household income is north of 450k, in our house we have 5 iPhones, 6 iPad's, 4 Apple TV's, 5 AirPod Pro's, 4 Apple Watches including my new Ultra, 3 Macbooks (all using Apple silicon) and I typically drive my wife's X5 xDrive40i as my GMC Sierra Denali 2500 can a PITA to park at times.

How does all that work out for your arrogant formula of who shops at Walmart? Oh, and my arms gets a workout pulling that heavy credit card out of my wallet and inserting it into the payment terminal.
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Sounds like you need to shop at Walmart.
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
I think I used Apple Pay at Walmart's biggest threat the other day - Dollar General.

No, seriously, Walmart has cited Dollar General as the company that concerns them most on more than one occasion.

And based on my experience, it makes sense. Dollar General's prices are competitive with Walmart and the selection is ok, but they're vastly more convenient - Dollar General is generally half as far away from customers as Walmart is, and the stores are much more compact so you can be in and out much quicker (and Apple Pay helps shave a few seconds here in that regard.)

You might think I'm crazy here, but it seems to me that since I took a closer look at my local Dollar General, I'm thinking I'm probably going to replace ~80% of my trips to Walmart with trips to Dollar General instead.
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Read up on DG. They're considered by a lot of entities to be far worse than Walmart, in terms of damaging communities.
 
bradl said:
Another reason why I avoid them, especially with the panhandlers who park themselves right at the entrance and exits asking if you can give them any money. And making it worse; by law they are able to do that at Walmarts in California, and there isn't a thing Walmart can do about it, thanks to the lawsuit they lost.

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"in California"

Born and raised there. Left in 2005 and every day I am thankful I did. I have to go back from time to time as my son is a Marine at Camp Pendleton, but what a completely messed up place.
 
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macdragonfl said:
No big deal, Target takes Apple pay so that’s where I go. I drive and additional 4 miles so they don’t get my money. Super Target’s groceries are better quality and usually less money anyway
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I love Target, and shop there once a week as well. That said for the groceries I would buy at Target (no meat or produce) Walmart has all of the same brands and cheaper.
 
max2 said:
Does Super Target have all the groceries that Walmart has ?
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That's actually an interesting thing. I've only seen Super Targets back in the midwest; there are 3 around my mother's house in Omaha, and a few in Oklahoma City. They are physically bigger than Walmart. Elsewhere, the regular Targets I have been to also have grocery stores in them, and are just as big as Walmart. So it's dozens either way between Target and Walmart, and Super Target and Super Walmart. The only difference I have seen is that some Walmarts have their own fuel stations, where Target doesn't.

TheMacDaddy1 said:
?????????????????????? Soooo, Walmart is the reason your father-in-law caught COVID and needs nebulizer treatments for the rest of his life?

That is SOME claim. How do you even begin to back that up??????
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Simple. He did the contact tracing back to every single place that he was prior to catching COVID. No previous place he had been to had any outbreak of COVID during or around the time he had been there prior to contracting COVID. The only place that did... was Walmart.

However, I didn't say that Walmart was the reason he caught COVID; I said that he caught COVID from being AT WALMART. Someone that was at that location around the time he was had caught COVID, and it was transmitted around the store at or around the time he was there. He hadn't been to any other place after that Walmart.

It was already shocking enough that he had done that; he was one of the people who believed it was a hoax. Unfortunately, he learned the truth the hard way.

BL.
 
MacClueless said:
Hope things get better for you.
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? Things are fine. I have no problem shopping at Walmart, Target or my favorite grocery store. I do not put down people that shop at any of those locations. Apple pay is great and when I can use it, I love it. That said I do not freak out or boycott retailers that do not support it because I have to pull out my wallet/CC.
 
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bradl said:
That's actually an interesting thing. I've only seen Super Targets back in the midwest; there are 3 around my mother's house in Omaha, and a few in Oklahoma City. They are physically bigger than Walmart. Elsewhere, the regular Targets I have been to also have grocery stores in them, and are just as big as Walmart. So it's dozens either way between Target and Walmart, and Super Target and Super Walmart. The only difference I have seen is that some Walmarts have their own fuel stations, where Target doesn't.



Simple. He did the contact tracing back to every single place that he was prior to catching COVID. No previous place he had been to had any outbreak of COVID during or around the time he had been there prior to contracting COVID. The only place that did... was Walmart.

However, I didn't say that Walmart was the reason he caught COVID; I said that he caught COVID from being AT WALMART. Someone that was at that location around the time he was had caught COVID, and it was transmitted around the store at or around the time he was there. He hadn't been to any other place after that Walmart.

It was already shocking enough that he had done that; he was one of the people who believed it was a hoax. Unfortunately, he learned the truth the hard way.

BL.
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"However, I didn't say that Walmart was the reason he caught COVID; I said that he caught COVID from being AT WALMART."

Same difference really.

I am sorry but that is NOT science. Everyone he knows that he came in contact with (at home, etc) could have had it, and had no symptoms, and gave it to him, including you. Unless he lived in a bunker for a year and had no contact with ANYONE, until he came out of the bunker and went to Walmart, without any contact with anyone until he entered the store, then came back to his bunker and then had COVID....is the only way you can say that.

Short of that, it is just random opinion.
 
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