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Apple Pay works at WalMart!
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I almost fell out of my chair - have no clue how you found that
No one is forcing iPhone to be the payments of the future. If you can use your iPhone there, your Android or Windows phone will work fine.
Android users can use either Google Wallet or ISIS/Softcard
windows phone has Microsoft Wallet
And even BB has one
Now I understand. I went to the self checkouts next time I will try the Manned Cashiers!
Thank you!
When you raise your phone to the terminal don't place your finger on Touch ID. It'll bring up other cards for you to select from.
What kind of terminal do they use? It has to be the MX915. Most WMs use Ingenico or Mx860
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That's an MX860 reader, not an MX915. I'll take a picture of one that does actually work when I get to Walmart either later today or tomorrow. But these are the ones my Walmart has, and NFC works! You tap the top of the iPhone to the screen of the Mx915
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No contactless payment wifi-ish logo so we know to geek out? BOOOO
Looks like we're all going to become "terminal nerds", memorizing every oddball terminal that supports NFC but doesn't look like it.. LOL
Loosen your tinfoil hat, buddy. Apple Pay is just NFC with some extra security. Anyone could implement the same thing.
Unfortunately no symbol at all. My local grocery store Basha's is this way too. Just tap the iPhone anyway, and all is well, voila, it works! Sad because not having the symbol makes people think the store does not have NFC. Hopefully once Chip & PIN is on, they'll at least change the verbiage to Swipe/Tap/Insert, because the words on the screen at Basha's just say Slide Card!
At Walmart it says Insert or Slide, but I tapped, four green circles popped up on the terminal, and it worked, iPhone dinged, and the terminal beeped!
You can't just look for the symbol anymore, you pretty much do have to be a terminal nerd.
Apple won't because they're all about simple. Telling people that it only works on a Verifone Mx915 or 925 isn't the Apple way.
Also Apple missed a lot of stores that Apple Pay works great at like:
-CVS
-Lots of Mom & Pop businesses that take NFC through a terminal like the FD Terminal, or Chase Paymentech
-Lots of local grocery stores like local regional chains like, Basha's, Aj's Fine Foods, and Food City here in Arizona.
-Big O Tires
-Gas Stations like Circle K, or Shell stations when you go inside
-Many Taxi cabs like Discount Cab, Yellow Cab, VIP here in AZ
-NYC cabs
-Even my DENTIST, has a Chase Paymentech terminal WITH NFC
-Public Transportation systems all over the U.S., take contact less payments
-a small number of Walmarts
But because these stores aren't super-huge mega corps like Walmart, or mcD's, Apple didn't mention it, but I can vouch that Apple Pay works great at all of these. It could also be because many of these are specific to regions, so it'll be a mess to list them all. It IS possible but not feasible to live entirely using Apple Pay if one would want to. At least in my state, I can think of every category of business taking NFC, from dentists, to pool cleaning guys. It's because nobody noticed it before until Apple Pay came out.
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That is one the Walmart I go to has.... I will have to try see if it works when Apple Pay becomes available for my debit/credit cards.
Tried mine. Nope. Not even my Barclaycard Visa that I used to buy an iPhone was supported yet.
These are the only ones that'll work with Apple Pay at Walmart. As promised above here's a picture.
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Rite-Aid
Just tried it at Rite-Aid. They've gone out of their way to say "Apple Pay is not Supported".
They've got everything necessary to just accept an NFC Payment, but they are actively discriminating against Apple Pay, because - ********s.
Just tried it at Rite-Aid. They've gone out of their way to say "Apple Pay is not Supported".
They've got everything necessary to just accept an NFC Payment, but they are actively discriminating against Apple Pay, because - ********s.
Did it work? Or did the screen literally say Apple Pay not supported? From what I know Google Wallet worked fine there.
It does not work there. Tried today at riteaid and cashier said the screen told her to use another form of payment.
Such a shame when a system that should work doesnt because they gimped it for whatever reason (probably to try and implement their own virtual wallet so they can track your sales better.)
It could be argued that since Target has lost a lot of reputation as the result of leaking personal information of its customers and thus enabling fraud on a huge scale (which costs those customers time and aggravation as they deal with fraud and card replacements), enabling a tokenised, secure payment system that works with standard NFC terminals and also has biometric authentication should be a very high priority.
Sadly, they seem more interested in the CurrenC system which, I believe, not only doesn't work with credit cards (which are a buffer against financial loss due to fraud) but requires connection to a bank account, which is very, very, very insecure.
That seems to me the opposite of what Target should be doing right now, and I say that not due to any Apple bias -- I'd like to see Google Wallet's tokenization more widely supported for Android users -- but sadly, someone's probably getting a big bonus or payoff from CurrenC for this.
i have to say i am a little surprised target is not on board with NFC payments.
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just go to CVS if there is one close.
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just go to CVS if there is one close.
Just used mine for the first time at CVS. Unbelievably simple. Happened so fast I almost missed it.