I guess this shifts from not supporting it to actively working against it. The hope for support goes down now. But I mean, for me, if I need something I need something. I just won't use their app.
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CVS Launches Barcode-Based 'CVS Pay' in Lieu of Apple Pay
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I guess this shifts from not supporting it to actively working against it. The hope for support goes down now. But I mean, for me, if I need something I need something. I just won't use their app.
If only Walgreens were more abundant here in south Orange County, California. I can't stand this sort of bs as well.
You got it. Also more and more banks are making their ATM'S Apple pay compatible. Wells Fargo is rolling it out and Bank America has already started accepting at ATM's with more to come. Products would be cheaper if people used cash??? Credit card fees are rolled into the use of that credit card not into the product.
From Reading these posts, one could think that all iPhone users want to use Apple Pay.
Reality is that only very few users are using it. Of the approximately 30-40 people with Apple Pay enabled iPhone users that I know, only 1 or 2, myself included, use it.
Also, since so very few of the stores that I use regularly accept it. I am really only able to use it one or two times a month. Even at Walgreens I can not use Apple Pay, because the special debit card I pay my prescriptions with is not AP enabled.
Until the major grocery chains in my area, Kroger and HEB are on board, Apple Pay is pretty much useless for me.
Reality is that only very few users are using it. Of the approximately 30-40 people with Apple Pay enabled iPhone users that I know, only 1 or 2, myself included, use it.
Also, since so very few of the stores that I use regularly accept it. I am really only able to use it one or two times a month. Even at Walgreens I can not use Apple Pay, because the special debit card I pay my prescriptions with is not AP enabled.
Until the major grocery chains in my area, Kroger and HEB are on board, Apple Pay is pretty much useless for me.
Let's see. Here's the break down of how easy it is with the CVS app.
1. Pull out out iPhone.
2. Wake it up.
3. Swipe through pages of apps to find the CVS one.
4. Open up the CVS app.
5. Find the right page in the CVS app.
6. Scan the bar code.
Here's with an iPhone and Apple Pay
1. Pull out out iPhone
2. Double tap home button.
3. Tap to pay.
Here's how easy it it is with an Apple Watch.
1. Double tap the side button.
2. Tap to pay.
Which seems easier, CVS?
1. Pull out out iPhone.
2. Wake it up.
3. Swipe through pages of apps to find the CVS one.
4. Open up the CVS app.
5. Find the right page in the CVS app.
6. Scan the bar code.
Here's with an iPhone and Apple Pay
1. Pull out out iPhone
2. Double tap home button.
3. Tap to pay.
Here's how easy it it is with an Apple Watch.
1. Double tap the side button.
2. Tap to pay.
Which seems easier, CVS?
Great point........except everything you described is already available. Walgreens does all the things CVS does in their app for prescriptions. You can actually be at home, take your prescription or empty bottle you have run out of, scan the barcode in their app and it will fill your script and then text you when its ready. Clearly its possible to offer your customers these benefits and still accept Apple Pay.
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Sadly as bad as your post makes it sound....its even worse!!! You actually have to bring up the barcode, show it to employee, then they have to scan barcode, then you choose your payment method, then tap pay. So add 3 more steps to your list....hilarious
This is a great move by CVS and I predict that it will have all of the success currently enjoyed by CurrenC.
Wife is telling me CVS does indeed support Apple Pay as well now (at least in our location). I was not aware they supported it, but pretty damning evidence from our CC statement below.
They could do that without an app but with a loyalty card, which they have already.
I use ApplePay anywhere possible but I've recently started using WalmartPay at WallyWorld. I like the fact that they have made adding receipts to the savings catcher VERY convenient...
The major drug stores in my area are CVS, RiteAid, Walgreens and SavOn. RiteAid, Walgreens and SavOn all accept Apple Pay.
Guess which one I DON'T shop at!
Mark
Guess which one I DON'T shop at!
Mark
So are you saying that out of the 30-40 people you know who have ApplePay setup and active on their phone; when they approach an ApplePay terminal. they don't use it?
Or are you just throwing up straw man bulls##t?
This has nothing to do with being more secure. This is about your data/shopping habits in their database as well as skirting credit card fees.
I'm a huge Apple Pay lover so I try it everywhere I see the NFC logo even knowing CVS doesn't participate. I just say "hey does this thing work with this thing yet?" while I ignore whatever the clerk mutters and raise my Watch up to the terminal.
It has failed each time except for this last Tuesday - Apple Pay worked at CVS!!!
Can anyone else go confirm if this is a secret rollout??
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Just reported the same thing.
Cause the world doesn't have enough payment systems!
enough of these crap, enable NFC and thats it...Apple Pay/Android Pay....simple...
enough of these crap, enable NFC and thats it...Apple Pay/Android Pay....simple...
Yeah, I don't see the difficulty of using a payment system; I wave my phone over the terminal, it beeps and I enter the PIN number. Done. I enter my chip card, enter my PIN, done. For a few extra seconds of button pressing over using cash, really nothing to it at all.
These holdouts need to get a grip. Do they strive to make the world a little more difficult for everyone, is that one of their company objectives? Do they see consumers wanting to download an app for every single store they go to? Seems so to me. No one wants your lousy app that only works in your store. Should be a government regulation to get everyone on the same page and not work in silos.
Apple Pay works at CVS anyway. This point is moot now! They turned it back on without announcing it. Nobody will bother with the app now!
I see, so the idea is to fix one broken thing with another useless thing. Nicely done.
OK. How does the pickup at the store work then? According to the description, the main benefit of the CVS app seems to be that instead of showing the prescription, answering ID verification questions, and then paying, you simply scan the barcode for the presciption at the store and do all steps at once, so it's not just a payment method but an electronic prescription slip.