Even my (Windows Phone toting) barber, with a 2-chair shop, in a little town in Europe takes Apple Pay.
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CVS Launches Barcode-Based 'CVS Pay' in Lieu of Apple Pay
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I miss the rebranding of CVS a few years ago when they launched their loyalty program.
Every time I went I purchased $10 of goods and paid like $2 due to frequent coupons.
Now it's just an overpriced drug store that's understaffed and I tend to lean toward Walgreens now, not because of Apple Pay.
Every time I went I purchased $10 of goods and paid like $2 due to frequent coupons.
Now it's just an overpriced drug store that's understaffed and I tend to lean toward Walgreens now, not because of Apple Pay.
I hope you find a cause one day to support. Once you do and its important to you I hope you find others that feel the same and are willing to join in. Some movements start small and grow over time. There is a movement currently to let stores know we want to use our devices to pay because its convenient and secure. CVS does care or they would not have spent the time developing the update for their application. What they want is a means to track purchases which is difficult with Apple Pay and impossible with cash. Many businesses are no longer taking cash because its slow and messy.
Telling everyone to grow up is the same as saying you should only ever take what is handed to you and like it. If you want to go though life that way go ahead but it has nothing to do with growing up.
It's actually rather funny how these stores are making it so obvious that they feel threaten by Apple Pay taking away their data, instead of worrying about the safety and security of their customers. These stores can kiss my ass.
I'm perfectly happy shopping at Walgreens with Apple Pay. Walgreens pulls my membership/discount card and my payment card from my watch - quick and easy.
I'm really getting sick of all these _______ Pay's. All it's doing is fragmenting the mobile payment industry until everyone's getting nothing out of it. I don't care if they want to have their own system, offer rewards for using it, sure. But keep the universal ones supported for crying out loud.
All these proprietary systems are short term gains, long term losses, bad for business my friends. Even though I don't use mobile payments that much, I actively avoid shopping at places that deliberately prevent specific payment types from working.
All these proprietary systems are short term gains, long term losses, bad for business my friends. Even though I don't use mobile payments that much, I actively avoid shopping at places that deliberately prevent specific payment types from working.
Very disappointing that Apple Pay is not an option but I use the CVS app every time I pickup prescriptions. You just show the barcode and you don't have to give birthdate or loyalty card, it just pops up the pickup prescription for the pharmacist. If I've already pulled up the barcode anyway, not so bad if it just goes to payments.
Cash is King?
I don't know anyone that really carries cash anymore.
As opposed as I was to Walmart Pay, now that I've used it I am pretty impressed at how simple it is and how well it works. It's definitely no Apple Pay, but if I were able to use Apple Pay I would still have to open the app and scan my receipt into savings catcher anyway, which I no longer have to do, so it's kind of a wash.
The problem I have with CVS is that they already had NFC terminals and were accepting tap payments until Apple Pay came out and they intentionally disabled it in favor of their own proprietary nonsense that took them two years to figure out. Thats a dick move, and I haven't shopped there since.
Apple Pay holdout CVS today introduced CVS Pay, a new barcode-based mobile payment solution that integrates payment, prescription pickup, and its ExtraCare loyalty program into a single scan at checkout. CVS Pay is built into the newly updated CVS Pharmacy app for iOS and Android devices.
CVS Pay works with all major U.S. credit cards, including MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express, in addition to debit, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Account cards. All verifications for prescriptions and payment like a signature or PIN occur within the CVS Pharmacy app.
After adding their credit or debit cards to the app, customers can show the store associate a barcode, or pickup number at drive-thru locations, to initiate payment. The associate will scan the barcode, ring up the purchases, let the customer choose a stored payment method, and then process the payment.
CVS Pay is the pharmacy chain's first official mobile payments solution. CVS officially disabled Apple Pay shortly following its U.S. launch, prompting a response from Apple and even a potential class action lawsuit. At the time, CVS was committed to MCX and its indefinitely postponed payments solution CurrentC.
CVS Pay launches today in select markets, including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, and a nationwide rollout to its over 9,600 pharmacy locations in the U.S. is expected to begin later this year. CVS Pharmacy is free on the App Store [Direct Link] for iPhone, with a companion Apple Watch app available.
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good thing walgreens is almost as ubiquitous as CVS. not going to pull up an app just to make payments. faster to grab my credit card from my wallet.
Why then? I'm not a CVS fan -- like you said it's just an overpriced drug store. But Walgreens is no different except that it's an overpriced drugstore that accepts ApplePay. So if not for ApplePay why would you shop there? Personally I try to avoid both of them, but if I have to go to one I go to whichever one is most convenient.
I love cash, too, but keeping enough on hand to get through a week in a suburban high cost of living area is a pain in the tail.
I usually go in to town to shop every other week. Depending on how much restocking of the pantry I have to do and how many prescriptions need renewing I could need around $500. I'd have to have a screw loose to carry that amount of cash in a town with the crime stats ours has.
So...when merchants severely restrict payment options so that they can keep customer data under their thumbs...it would be pathetic to take that lying down.
I currently just use my chip card which is painfully slow as those chip readers at CVS are really slow. Unfortunately CVS is the most convenient pharmacy around in my drive path. I would have an additional thirty minutes on my commute to get to a Walgreens. There's a Rite Aid around that I go to sometimes but it's in another parking lot that's a pain to get into and out of and not in my usual path. I actually like the local CVS. The staff are very friendly and helpful. The service is excellent and the pharmacy has been reliable. I don't blame them for the nincompoops at corporate implementing this obnoxious policy.
And it is obnoxious!
I always carry some cash, usually around $40. Don't know how many times I've been somewhere and their payment terminals are down.
I went through a Jack in the Box drive thru the other day and the first thing the guy asked was did I have cash as their network was down and couldn't process cards.
Good thing I had it as the only other place nearby was a Burger King, and I hate their food.
I avoid CVS at all costs. The one's in my area used to be Longs Drug stores, but they sold to CVS. They put in this awful carpet that really smells bad.I think they mark up their prices so they can give you those great coupons discounting stuff down to the price it should be.
So this is the company saying your data is worth more than your convince or privacy. This is once again a company that is harvesting and faring you for data that is worth more than your transactions at times.
Did you know you don't even need to do that? Just hold your iPhone near the terminal with your thumb on TouchID and Apple Pay will trigger automatically when it detects the NFC terminal.
So just like ApplePay, minus security, convenience, and privacy.