It's showing up in one of the McDonald location here in Toronto too!
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Apple Pay Badges Appear in Some Maps Listings in Australia, Canada, Singapore and Europe
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In Australia we've already had tap and pay with our debit cards and credit cards for a really long time already. In fact, we could even use our phones for this tap and pay feature if it has NFC (in the case that it doesn't, we would could a small NFC sticker from the bank and stick it to the back of the phone). Moreover, we could use our phones to withdraw cash from ATMs...
Imagine you can use your iPhone to tap on and tap off. Would it be super awesome?We've had tap and pay for years... nothing new in that waybut will be awesome to use my iPhone 6
Uh, I forgot one thing. The waiting time of most card readers would drive someone crazy.
I am really looking forward to see Apple Pay can be supported in Australia nationwide. Then I can simply use my IPhone 6 Plus to tap...uh, to pay something, at supported stores.
If I can tap on and tap off using only iPhone, I would not need to carry that Opal card all around.
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I really hope Apple Pay will arrive to more countries as soon as possible. It seems like many countries already have the proper infrastructure in abundance...
In Singapore, contactless readers are in many places. Almost every supermarket has them, and self check-outs are all "card only". Banks also seem to be quite enthusiastic about it: http://business.asiaone.com/news/banks-look-apple-pay-gamechanger
When I was in Sydney earlier this September, contactless payment options are just as common. Even Opal top up machines are cards/EFTPOS only. I guess it's dependent on whether banks agree on Apple's terms, or whether Apple is interested in that market or not.
In Singapore, contactless readers are in many places. Almost every supermarket has them, and self check-outs are all "card only". Banks also seem to be quite enthusiastic about it: http://business.asiaone.com/news/banks-look-apple-pay-gamechanger
When I was in Sydney earlier this September, contactless payment options are just as common. Even Opal top up machines are cards/EFTPOS only. I guess it's dependent on whether banks agree on Apple's terms, or whether Apple is interested in that market or not.
I beg to disagree,I used Apple Pay in Tim Hortons and Zehrs here in St Catharines, ON and so far none of them have the Apple Pay Badges.
OT, Woolworths in the UK brings back memories of the old 'Winfield' own brand football boots, which had 4 white stripes, people would take a black marker pen to the fourth stripe to turn it into a seemingly more expensive, better quality, 3 stripe Adidas boot!
Saw this pop up in maps as well. However, I can only find it for one single cold storage chain in Singapore, so I am not sure it is a simple typo or if Apple Pay is coming to select stores here.
Cold Storage tends to frequented by expats here in Singapore, so I imagine they would be more tech savvy and open to the idea of using mobile payments.
I'm Singaporean and I use PayWave most of the time. It's just faster.
Saw this pop up in maps as well. However, I can only find it for one single cold storage chain in Singapore, so I am not sure it is a simple typo or if Apple Pay is coming to select stores here.
Cold Storage tends to frequented by expats here in Singapore, so I imagine they would be more tech savvy and open to the idea of using mobile payments.
Funny though. I expect other Cold Storage stores (such as those in Tanglin, Orchard or Jelita) to have the badge, but it only appears in NEX. The badge can also be seen at "Shaw Theatres".
Thankfully Singapore is well-equipped with contactless payment solutions. There should be little problem if Apple successfully launches Apple Pay in the country.
Someone mentioned above that Apple may be getting information from usage. Out of curiosity I checked out a couple of places near me where I've used Apple Pay (but aren't official retailers). First off, this sandwich shop; they're on the MasterCard Nearby app and I've used Apple Pay here before (likely the first/only one to, in fact, since they didn't even know they could accept it). There's no icon in Maps:
Then there's this chicken place. They're also on the MasterCard Nearby app and actually have signs and such saying you can use Apple Pay. For this place, there's an icon:
Finally, an Asian grocery store. They have signs saying you can use Apple Pay; however, the grocery store itself isn't listed in the MasterCard Nearby app (some of the mini-stores within are, though). There's an icon for it as well:
In short, maybe there is credence to Apple using data from its users to populate this particular piece of info. However, I think they're not populating it unless a certain number of people use Apple Pay at a given location.
Then there's this chicken place. They're also on the MasterCard Nearby app and actually have signs and such saying you can use Apple Pay. For this place, there's an icon:
Finally, an Asian grocery store. They have signs saying you can use Apple Pay; however, the grocery store itself isn't listed in the MasterCard Nearby app (some of the mini-stores within are, though). There's an icon for it as well:
In short, maybe there is credence to Apple using data from its users to populate this particular piece of info. However, I think they're not populating it unless a certain number of people use Apple Pay at a given location.
Right but consider the cost of ripping out every Suica terminal in the country and replacing it with an Apple Pay compatible unit. The reason it's taking off in the US is that swipe terminals have new terms of use (vendor fraud liability), and so a lot of vendors are replacing them with new tap/swipe terminals. What would be the incentive in Japan to throw away something that works well?
It looks like businesses can do it themselves through Apple Maps Connect. Unfortunately these random listing we're seeing are probably due to users clicking the option without understanding or clicking because they have accepted US/UK cards.
It looks like businesses can do it themselves through Apple Maps Connect. Unfortunately these random listing we're seeing are probably due to users clicking the option without understanding or clicking because they have accepted US/UK cards.
Thanks for clearing this up. We've had contactless payment at work for a while but I noticed a badge appeared on us on Maps. Wondered how they'd gotten that info. Someone on tech must have done it.
You're lucky. We don't even have Woolworths in the UK anymore. RIP in peace.
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Wow... well I guess if it sounds like a troll, and smells like a troll...
Either that or someone is in a really bad mood LOL
The banks do get something in return. In Canada and many other countries beside US contactless credit card payments have really taken off in the last few years and the banks are all in on them. But contactless card transactions are not secure and chip and pin is irrelevant there. hence the contactless transaction limits to mitigate fraud. I don't know the fraud figures but they are not trivial and the banks pick up the costs. And those numbers will only go up as contactless card payments become even more prevalent.
There are other less direct benefits too. Banks generally want card transactions to be as secure and as frictionless as possible as such things increase both credit/debit card usage by customers as well as acceptance by businesses. Apple Pay and similar Android offerings do both of these things at once.
I see nothing wrong with Apple asking for a small transaction fee. as for the size of that fee I don't think anybody really knows what exactly they are asking for outside US and UK. Apart from one rumor published in WSJ more than 6 months ago I haven't seen anything mentioning proposed fees in Canada.
I *think* Sports Direct have acquired the business name from the Littlewoods catalogue group with a few to re-establishing it on the High Street.
I hope they do... Can use Apple Pay for my Pick N' Mix then haha!
Wow, very interesting. I just looked up known Apple Pay stores close to my home here in Texas and saw the Apple Pay symbol in their description. I didnt know that was there. This is good to know
Not related to US woolworths in any way.
Australian one was founded by a guy with the same last name as the guy who founded the US one.
It looks like businesses can do it themselves through Apple Maps Connect. Unfortunately these random listing we're seeing are probably due to users clicking the option without understanding or clicking because they have accepted US/UK cards.
Does the Apple Pay option appear in countries that do not (currently) support it?