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Apple Pay Gains 35 More Participating Issuers in United States
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Any discussion about retailers in this particular thread is a non sequitur -- another logical fallacy. If you think that discussion of retailers is appropriate in this discussion of issuers, please provide your reasoning and facts. I don't know how to say it any more plainly than that.
Change banks, and tell them that's the reason you are leaving.
That's the only thing that will get their attention.
Here in the U.S. alot of us are counting on the merchants getting new readers this fall to bring us widespread NFC (as the transition to Chip cards finally starts here) and I think most people are just assuming they will come with NFC terminals...
But the new readers all having NFC isn't a pre-ordained outcome - they could just as easily not have NFC functionality included (as the Walmart group payment system doesn't use NFC and that group would probably pay terminal makers and/or merchants to not have NFC on their terminals).
The actual places you can use it at is intermittent enough that my guess is most people won't bother with Apple Pay after trying it out a few times (I still do, but I doubt most would).
But the new readers all having NFC isn't a pre-ordained outcome - they could just as easily not have NFC functionality included (as the Walmart group payment system doesn't use NFC and that group would probably pay terminal makers and/or merchants to not have NFC on their terminals).
The actual places you can use it at is intermittent enough that my guess is most people won't bother with Apple Pay after trying it out a few times (I still do, but I doubt most would).
Walmart is really the only "true believer" in CurrentC left. Most of the others are bailing (Best Buy being the biggest one so far), have already done so or are close to going under anyway.
Anywya, WM seems to be upgrading again to these Ingenico terminals that have NFC hardware built-in; they just chose not to turn it on. They probably need to do this to support CurrentC anyway.
More small banks are nice, but it would be better if the big issuers provided 100% support. Specifically, Amex Corporate cards and one of my Chase-issued cards are not supported.
