Honestly, I want to use it because it's fast and convienient. Do you know what it's like to pay at Walgreens with the credit card? The menu is absolutely ridiculous. Swipe card, select credit or debit, no I don't want to donate, no I don't want cash back, yes I confirm the amount. I'm standing there having to push 4 buttons going through the payment process, on a screen hundreds of ppl touch daily mind you. I hate the experience. With Apple pay, all I have to do is hold my phone out and scan my fingerprint, and in 3 seconds I'm done. Do you have any clue how awesome that is? That makes my day.
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CVS Stores Reportedly Disabling NFC to Shut Down Apple Pay and Google Wallet
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Honestly, I want to use it because it's fast and convienient. Do you know what it's like to pay at Walgreens with the credit card? The menu is absolutely ridiculous. Swipe card, select credit or debit, no I don't want to donate, no I don't want cash back, yes I confirm the amount. I'm standing there having to push 4 buttons going through the payment process, on a screen hundreds of ppl touch daily mind you. I hate the experience. With Apple pay, all I have to do is hold my phone out and scan my fingerprint, and in 3 seconds I'm done. Do you have any clue how awesome that is? That makes my day.
CVS Stores Reportedly Disabling NFC to Shut Down Apple Pay and Google Wallet
The cashiers have no say. Minimum wage skill-less monkeys, high school kids making a little gas and date money.
Light up their twitter, social media, help, etc.
The cashiers have no say. Minimum wage skill-less monkeys, high school kids making a little gas and date money.
Light up their twitter, social media, help, etc.
You people are getting your panties all wadded up over nothing. Just take out your debit credit cards problem solved. Sheesh big honking deal about Apple pay not working when for the past 20 years we have been using credit cards anyway and never have I once been liable for fraud charges.
Al this Apple pay is just hipster technology that benefits but at the price of forcing everyone to accept it. And those that boycott these non Apple pay stores good luck taking your business elsewhere because all of a sudden it's like Apple pay or the highway.
Get a grip people !!
Al this Apple pay is just hipster technology that benefits but at the price of forcing everyone to accept it. And those that boycott these non Apple pay stores good luck taking your business elsewhere because all of a sudden it's like Apple pay or the highway.
Get a grip people !!
Apple and Google could solve this little problem by barring the Current C app from their app stores.
Banknotes don't go offline, have server issues, have flat batteries or refuse to accept your fingerprint. Wait and see - when all this ridiculously overcomplicated technology falls flat on it's face, and when every shop has abolished cash payments, you're all going to be stuck with NO way to pay and NO GOODS.
But then again - please go ahead and carry on with your empty "protests" - seeing as you're all "entitled" Americans.
All this "anger" is pathetic, utterly childish and also rather hilarious
PS: I come from the UK, where we've had Chip N PIN for MANY YEARS. I could come to your good country and decry the lack of adoption of THAT... but all I care about is walking in, buying, and leaving - not making a scene over my "rights". LOL
But then again - please go ahead and carry on with your empty "protests" - seeing as you're all "entitled" Americans.
All this "anger" is pathetic, utterly childish and also rather hilarious
PS: I come from the UK, where we've had Chip N PIN for MANY YEARS. I could come to your good country and decry the lack of adoption of THAT... but all I care about is walking in, buying, and leaving - not making a scene over my "rights". LOL
LOL. Coins. Funny sarcasm but I seriously havent had in possession or carried those things in my pocket for the better part of the last decade.
Wow. They're going out of their way to inconvenience their customers unnecessarily. Is that good customer service?! This tells me they're not interested in their customers at all. I will be switching my prescriptions and shopping to Walgreens.
I go to CVS fairly often. In fact, CVS was the first store where I used Apple Pay the day it came out and it worked flawlessly. I'm very disappointed in CVS.
I go to CVS fairly often. In fact, CVS was the first store where I used Apple Pay the day it came out and it worked flawlessly. I'm very disappointed in CVS.
I am beginning to think "Hi Retailers. We will let our iPhone users use your gear to pay for stuff without giving you their information if you give us a cut of every sale" is not going to be an enticing strategy for the retailers.
Google and Microsoft should offer them something better that works across devices and keeps the retailer->customer relation intact and doesn't add needless additional 'cuts'.
Google and Microsoft should offer them something better that works across devices and keeps the retailer->customer relation intact and doesn't add needless additional 'cuts'.
let's see what you say after hackers hack the store via the AC system or some other vendor system and steal your debit card number
You might want to check the App Store before saying that.
Google Wallet by Google, Inc.
https://appsto.re/us/fv-uI.i
I have a limit of $100 max on my debit card withdrawal. Doesn't affect me any way. And cash is king. Well for buying small items. You guys make your lives so dependent on a damn phone it's ridiculous. It's a phone. Put your little toy away for once and live your life.
Then make your point for the next two months and shop elsewhere. Don't be held to ransom by anyone however personally beneficial it may be.
Exactly. Apple Pay is built around security. Trust Target with a QR code to withdraw money directly from your checking account? I don't think so. There are no banks that currently back CurrentC and don't expect there to be: it cuts out the merchant service fees that they get. Not that U.S. banks are on the cutting edge of security or anything (they've been arguing for years about adopting EMV), but they have a vested interest in being more secure than retailers. If they weren't secure and didn't have consumer protections (often forced on them), people wouldn't park their money there.
Well, I'll add CVS to the boycott list. *shrugs* If they are going to boycott Apple Pay, I will boycott them. I can play this game. I will refuse to use CurrentC app and I will refuse to use CVS app. And when they get hacked and all those checking accounts are out there for the world to see, I will on the sidelines laughing my ass off as they get sued.....
Yep, and going forward hopefully it'll all transition over to Apple pay (and only be able to track purchases through the ID Name) and they won't have to store the CC in the cloud, unlike CurrentC.
No one is being forced to accept it. They were already accepting it and now they purposefully erected a barrier to stop people from using it. They're the childish ones.
Plus, if you want to use your CC or cash you are more than welcome to. By accepting Apple Pay a store doesn't have to refuse any other payment methods. So you can keep living the way you were no problem.
I plan to leave the house without my wallet now that ApplePay is accepted at the places I shop at the most, so yes, in my case its ApplePay or the highway for casual purchases. I am not going to shop at a place that requires me to carry extra stuff in that I don't want to carry because they're having a hissy fit over ApplePay.
I am not even mad at retailers who never supported NFC up to this point, as much as the ones who were perfectly fine with it and have what they need to do it but won't be cause they think their b.s. system next year can't compete.
If their system was going to be so good, they wouldn't be afraid to allow competing systems in their stores. This tells you that whatever they have planned is probably going to be crap.
While I do think it's ridiculous that CVS & Rite Aid are blocking Apple Pay for absolutely no reason, for anyone here to think that it's going to have financial repercussions for the companies is absurd. With the exception of a few of us tech geeks on this forum, nobody is going to choose Walgreens over CVS based solely on Apple Pay.
So you can lose $100 (and you're just as dependent on a little plastic card as someone is with their phone) and get tracked. A little toy avoids both.
It's their business they can do whatever they want. It's like I open a store selling products and I don't want to accept Amex but you come in with your Amex demanding service. WTF. GTFO!
I seem to recall a case in the UK that tickets for a major event, (It may have The Football World Cup, I'm not sure) could only be purchased via MasterCard, as they were sponsors. Visa was banned.
Caused an outcry obviously.