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CVS and Rite Aid Officially Disable Apple Pay Support At Stores Nationwide

Michaelgtrusa said:
They will come around.
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I truly feel CVS will. It was a huge move to stop the sale of tobacco products in their stores. It was 30% of some stores entire sales! They do not like bad publicity and hate being in the news. They will not comment about this like rite aid did because it's not what they do.

If enough complain on social media they may turn the readers back on or at least till the MCX system starts rolling then who knows what will happen.
 
Of course that officer from MasterCard wants people to pay however they want to, because it always means more profit for them! MasterCard are certainly not doing it out of love!

And the stores said they are evaluating their options which is exactly what they should do, considering the costs involved.
 
Self Inflicted Wound by CVS & Rite Aid

MCX mobile payment system may perhaps turn out better and even have superior features when it debuts than Apple Pay - who knows?

But to disable a funding stream that is operational now (and as another said "from affluent customers who can afford to buy latest iPhone" ) has to be the commercial equivalent of shooting oneself in the foot.

Come on CVS and Rite Aid, let Apple Pay bring you big $$ until your possibly better MCX comes on line next year - then let the best (or both) mobile payment system(s) win.

My RX choice is now Walgreens.
 
Just another speed bump in the move toward a standard. Remember the HD-DVD / Bluray battle. Apple Pay and NFC will prevail over this clunky CurrentC. Until then, it's just a minor inconvenience to go elsewhere.
 
batchtaster said:
Of course it's a douchey move. It's an appropriately douchey response to a douchey manoeuvre by the company.

And they'll complain to their boss, and they'll complain to their boss, and so forth. This is how things get fixed - from the grassroots level. Enough people do it and there'll be an obvious monetary penalty to the company. Until they're negatively impacted, they won't give a crap about the customer.
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You're better off contacting their PR department and writing letters to corporate. Preferably as a member of the press. Odds are the kid working the register just thinks you're annoying for paying in coins, his manager adds a second cashier til you're processed and they have a chat in the back later "oh well, that's corporate can't do much there."
 
Yank in UK said:
MCX mobile payment system may perhaps turn out better and even have superior features when it debuts than Apple Pay - who knows?

But to disable a funding stream that is operational now (and as another said "from affluent customers who can afford to buy latest iPhone" ) has to be the commercial equivalent of shooting oneself in the foot.

Come on CVS and Rite Aid, let Apple Pay bring you big $$ until your possibly better MCX comes on line next year - then let the best (or both) mobile payment system(s) win.

My RX choice is now Walgreens.
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Stop being so elitist, just because you have an iPhone does NOT IN ANY WAY make you super rich and affluent! I'm sure plenty of iPhone owners shop in Boots, what does that make them?
And please people stop stating these stores aren't accepting money from paying customers... I'm sure people have cards and cash still even with their iPhones. Can you use your iPhone to draw cash out from a machine?
 
Why don't people see the problem with 1.0 products? I'd be glad if my shop isn't accepting each new type just because a company throws something new onto the market. Even Apple products and software had issues, big issues. As a business I wouldn't want to 'test' new payment systems until I am assured they are save and reliable. People here moan as if NFC is the only way to pay.

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apolloa said:
Stop being so elitist, just because you have an iPhone does NOT IN ANY WAY make you super rich and affluent! I'm sure plenty of iPhone owners shop in Boots, what does that make them?
And please people stop stating these stores aren't accepting money from paying customers... I'm sure people have cards and cash still even with their iPhones. Can you use your iPhone to draw cash out from a machine?
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I think people struggle to understand how business don't see Apple as God of the retailers and payment systems. It is Apple, must be great / the best and the only one, right?
 
Hackers Love This

Most of you posting here fail to understand how this form of payment will allow hackers to gain access to your personal info. Beside what was the customers using before this was invented? They can always use cash or credit cards to pay. Organize hackers can hack anything. Do not fool yourself and think this new untested method of payment is safe.
 
I understand them wanting their own payment platform to be successful (even if it does seem to be a privacy dumpster fire).....I really do. But if we look a few moves ahead on the chess board here how successful do they think CurrentC will be when Apple and Google end up pulling the apps from their App Stores?
 
None of you would survive in Southern Europe. In Italy you often have to pay with cash. You would rather die, right?
 
Was really looking forward to not having to carry my HSA card (issued through Wells Fargo and already added to my Passbook) to CVS when paying for a subscription, the only time I physically have had to use the card. Now maybe will consider switching to Walgreens.
 
Jibbajabba said:
I think people struggle to understand how business don't see Apple as God of the retailers and payment systems. It is Apple, must be great / the best and the only one, right?
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Absolutely, just like reading on here it's as though before Apple pay we had no method to purchase items.... It will be a tiny percentage of people at present who will use NFC I would think, most still use cash and cards. It is right that businesses evaluate the best way to go properly before jumping in.
 
pijim96 said:
Most of you posting here fail to understand how this form of payment will allow hackers to gain access to your personal info. Beside what was the customers using before this was invented? They can always use cash or credit cards to pay. Organize hackers can hack anything. Do not fool yourself and think this new untested method of payment is safe.
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The entire point of this payment method is that it doesn't expose any of your information, be it banking or personal, which is something that credit cards most certainly do.
 
batchtaster said:
Strikes me as being a veiled threat.

If you must go to CVS or Rite Aid, pay in pennies and dimes. Maybe when you're holding up the queue for several minutes they'll appreciate the worldwide NFC standard. And actually tell them: "I would have paid with my phone in a couple of seconds, but you deliberately turned it off, so this is what you get."
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That will only work if you make a video of it and it goes viral, or if enough sales are list higher ups notice.
 
So is it just Apple Pay that they don't like, or are MacRumors just concentrating on that side of the story? Surely Google Wallet and all the various other forms of NFC payments are affected?
 
pijim96 said:
Most of you posting here fail to understand how this form of payment will allow hackers to gain access to your personal info. Beside what was the customers using before this was invented? They can always use cash or credit cards to pay. Organize hackers can hack anything. Do not fool yourself and think this new untested method of payment is safe.
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How am I going to hack a virtual card number that was disposed of after payment?
 
Velin said:
Should examine whether this move complies with antitrust laws, banking laws, and the credit card merchant agreements.

Also: Rite Aid sucks.
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Probably legally fine. It's not illegal to piss off your paying customers.

And I mean they are pissed off, because these companies didn't just not pay out for NFC terminals, which would be understandable, they _do_ have these terminals, Apple Pay would work if they did nothing, so they actually had to actively disable Apple Pay.
 
pijim96 said:
Most of you posting here fail to understand how this form of payment will allow hackers to gain access to your personal info. Beside what was the customers using before this was invented? They can always use cash or credit cards to pay. Organize hackers can hack anything. Do not fool yourself and think this new untested method of payment is safe.
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Please explain how hackers would break into Apple Pay. Not even Apple, with full control of everything going on on your phone (if they wanted to) could extract your credit card information.
 
You fail to grasp why this is big. I pay in cash everywhere I go since my debit cards were compromised 2 times over by merchants being idiots. I don't like to carry around that much cash so when this whole thing was announced I was really excited to finally have tokenized payments where my info can not be used when the vendor is breached (which they all will be). Look beyond brand hatred and/or loyalty and realize they shut off not only ApplePay, but GoogleWallet, All Chip and PIN cards (so most of EU visitors) and everyone else who has adopted the NFC standard just so they and the banking conglomerate MCX behind them can cheap out on the credit card fees they have had for 50 some odd years and also make a mint trafficking in your data, which is almost more valuable than your business. I for one will never shop at another store who has done this. While I am one person, we are a growing army of dissatisfied customers. I bet Walgreens is going to make bank over this and they should. They have had NFC for some time and embrace the new payment tech. They get my business from here on out.
 
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