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Apple Pay Expanding to All Saks Fifth Avenue, Albertsons, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Other Locations

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Apple Pay is rolling out to all Saks Fifth Avenue, Albertsons, and Dick's Sporting Goods locations across the United States. It's also coming to McDonald's and Chipotle's order-ahead apps in several cities later this year.

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Meanwhile, contactless tickets supported in Apple's Wallet app are coming to all Ticketmaster sports and concert venues in the United States.

Jennifer Bailey, Vice President of Apple Pay, revealed the news at the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas over the weekend. On stage, she also revealed several other statistics about Apple's mobile payments service.

Namely, she said Apple Pay will be available in 20 markets after it launches in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Arab Emirates as early as this week. We've also heard rumors about Apple Pay coming to the Netherlands, Poland, and Norway, but Apple has yet to confirm a rollout to those countries.

Bailey said that Apple Pay now works with over 4,000 banks and other participating issuers around the world. She added that 50 percent of retailers in the United States now accept the mobile payments service.

As mentioned during Apple's most recent earnings call, Bailey echoed that Apple Pay is by far the most popular contactless payment service on mobile devices, accounting for nearly 90 percent of all transactions globally.

In related news, payment processor First Data today announced that Clover Go, its all-in-one contactless, chip, and swipe card reader, will be available in the coming weeks on Apple.com and in Apple retail stores across the United States.

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First Data also said more than one million of its business clients now accept Apple Pay. The company plans to enable Apple Pay support for loyalty and gift cards at these merchants through integration with its Clover platform.

Meanwhile, Apple Pay Cash could launch alongside iOS 11.1 or shortly afterwards in the United States. Apple has invited both its corporate and retail employees to test the feature in beta over the past few weeks.

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This is great, love the expansion! At the same time, I would like to see some more of the current businesses a little more educated about what the heck Apple Pay is.

I’d say 75% of the time I go to use it, I still see utter confusion on the face of the cashier.

That’s certainly not Apple’s responsibility, but it may not hurt for them to just give a little refresher to some existing companies. :)
 
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Derekeys said:
This is great, love the expansion! At the same time, I would like to see some more of the current businesses a little more educated about what the heck Apple Pay is.

I’d say 75% of the time I go to use it, I still see utter confusion on the face of the cashier.

That’s certainly not Apple’s responsibility, but it may not hurt for them to just give a little refresher to some existing companies. :)
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Its even better when you keep your Apple Watch under your sleeve so the cashier thinks you're a wizard.
 
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It's great that it's picking up steam, but it's still not available in enough locations. I want to be able to leave my credit cards at home and there's no way I'd be able to do that now.
 
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Brookzy said:
What is this store-by-store expansion rubbish? Get your **** together, America - the rest of the world manages to automatically accept Apple Pay wherever contactless payments are accepted. Which is the majority of places.
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I always wondered why that doesn't seem to be possible in America... Same actually goes with NFC cards. Most terminals in the US seem to have the function disabled (for some reason).
 
i see it as the banks need to get on board as well. Lots of the smaller banks aren't enabling it yet, I imagine that they fees are part of the problem? I know so many people that are switching from larger banks to smaller local and regional banks where apple pay isn't supported.
 
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Harmonious Zen said:
It's great that it's picking up steam, but it's still not available in enough locations. I want to be able to leave my credit cards at home and there's no way I'd be able to do that now.
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This is why I like Samsung Pay over Apple Pay... at least in the US it works nearly everywhere. No NFC required.
 
Is it just Apple Pay or all contactless payments? Is there something special a retailer needs to do enable Apple Pay over other contactless payment options?
 
MacRumors said:
Apple Pay is rolling out to all Saks Fifth Avenue, Albertsons, and Dick's Sporting Goods locations across the United States.
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In other words, all NFC payments are being enabled at those stores.

It's also coming to McDonald's and Chipotle's order-ahead apps in several cities later this year.
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Okay, now THAT is Apple Pay specific, since it's being added to an iOS app.

Namely, she said Apple Pay will be available in 20 markets after it launches in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Arab Emirates as early as this week. We've also heard rumors about Apple Pay coming to the Netherlands, Poland, and Norway, but Apple has yet to confirm a rollout to those countries.
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In other words, Apple is dropping its purchase percentage demand low enough, that banks in those regions might be willing and able to pay it, just to make their customers happy. Otherwise, they have little or no reason to do so, since chip and contactless payments are commonplace already.
 
At least some of the McDonald’s in Omaha used to accept Apple Pay.

Then it went away without any notice or explanation. I wonder why?
 
Derekeys said:
I would like to see some more of the current businesses a little more educated about what the heck Apple Pay is.

I’d say 75% of the time I go to use it, I still see utter confusion on the face of the cashier.
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Does this even matter? I've never needed the cashier to know anything anywhere I've used Apple Pay. I always just hold my phone up to the terminal, it's never required the cashier to do anything different.
 
iapplelove said:
So many times I can’t use Apple Pay yet someone I’m with whips out their Samsung. So many times lol
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I know you are trying to make a cute joke, but I don't think in reality you have any idea what you are talking about. But have fun with that.
 
dwaltwhit said:
Kroger and whatever the largest gas station chain is need to adopt. These are the two things people use most.
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Albertsons is within ~3% of Kroger in terms of the size of their respective chains. Next is Ahold Delhaize (Food Lion/Giant in the Mid-Atlantic) which is another ~3% smaller. Those three together probably would qualify as "most people use these."

And according to this article http://www.nacsonline.com/YourBusiness/FuelsReports/GasPrices_2013/Pages/WhoSellsGas.aspx approximately 60% of all gas stations in the US are independently owned. Shell has the most stores with their brand but Chevron has the most corporate stores (all these numbers are as of 2013 which are the latest I can easily find). And both of those are mere drops in the bucket compared to the total market.
 
Brookzy said:
What is this store-by-store expansion rubbish? Get your **** together, America - the rest of the world manages to automatically accept Apple Pay wherever contactless payments are accepted. Which is the majority of places.
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Contactless cards are not really a thing in the US, so people think of contactless and Apple Pay as being the same here.
 
As I did when Safeway announced, I’ve emailed Kroger/Fred Meyer again asking them to turn on all NFC. Now that Safeway AND Albertsons takes it, they’re one of the bigger chains around here that don’t.
 
ArneK said:
Same actually goes with NFC cards.
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I suspect enough people consider them highly insecure such that banks don't want to risk pissing a bunch of people off by providing them. That and they cost more money than the regular EMV cards without the feature.
 
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