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CVS Stores Reportedly Disabling NFC to Shut Down Apple Pay and Google Wallet

I dont understand since all Apple Pay is, is a NFC based payment system, why would any retailer not want to support it. All they need is an NFC card terminal. Everything else is on the backend of Apple and banks/credit card companies. If I'm wrong, someone explain to me what Im missing, but from what I understand, if theres a NFC terminal and your bank is supported, you can use Apple Pay.

I get some retailers not wanting to buy a whole slew of new terminals, but it seems NFC is where payments will be going so eventually, they will have to surrender.
 
Someone should start a kickstarter project to run a couple of national ads requesting that Rite-Aid and CVS reconsider this decision.

I would contribute to this...
 
Moto G said:
I think a LOT of people could maybe read the book of Revelation, and see what they make of "The mark of the beast" and how a unified payment system correlates to what was foretold, and now the signs are coming to pass.

Only the spiritually blind could not see these signs.
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Please. Seriously, the bible. You just proved my point about you. Someone who needs a lot of reassurance about what they're doing and judging left and right. Pretty sure there's something in the "new book" about that...
 
icyrock1 said:
Sad. You really don't get much of a choice between CVS or Walgreens (it's mainly decided via location. Walgreens is more of a Midwest/east coast thing, while CVS is more West coast/South). A large chunk of the population won't have a choice to switch due to this.
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Plenty of Walgreens out here on the left coast.
 
RedOrchestra said:
If you're willing to back-up everything you own to iCloud, and everything about yourself on Facebook. what's an SSN here and there?
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Are you really that stupid that you cannot tell the difference between what a SSN leak can do to you versus leaking access to your "cloud" account?

Let me help you out here. One's a legal document provided by the government that cannot be easily changed. The other's just an online account that you can throw away at will.

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aross99 said:
Someone should start a kickstarter project to run a couple of national ads requesting that Rite-Aid and CVS reconsider this decision.

I would contribute to this...
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You mean change.org. Kickstart asks for $
 
aross99 said:
Someone should start a kickstarter project to run a couple of national ads requesting that Rite-Aid and CVS reconsider this decision.

I would contribute to this...
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You think it's worth spending money on trying to get them to change their opinion?
 
snebes said:
First cigarettes, now this. CVS just doesn't want people shopping there.

I still say they need to stop selling beer/liquor too, if they are so concerned about peoples' "health".
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I view the removal of cigarettes as a good thing. But hey, I don't care what others do to their health. Just keep that **** away from me.
 
caesarp said:
Okay, they still take regular credit cards - right? Everyone use your AMEX card when buying anything at CVS or Rite aid. It has the highest transaction fees. Which is what they are trying to avoid.
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This. And for people who can't get Amex, get an Amex prepaid as it still charges the retailer the high fees!
 
But don't MCX or whoever they are need apps to make there so called payment solutions work? What makes them think Apple or Google will allow them to profit from their AppStores... clowns. All Google and Apple has to do is write a formal F*c* you letter to MCX saying: "your app won't be supported on android or iOS"
 
So unbelievable how these CEO's don't realize the potential of ApplePay. Nope, they want a large piece of the pie instead of a small piece - greedy greedy, they will all lose in the end.
 
samcraig said:
Again - I find the spoiled brat mentality of some (not all here) ridiculous.
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Spoiled brat mentality? :rolleyes:

Sorry I want to use the best available means that I can to prevent my identity or credit cards from being stolen.
 
Good thing there's a Walgreen's on the corner across from almost every CVS in America! And in my experience the Walgreen's is usually nicer too. So... Yeah... That makes the decision easy!! No more CBS for me!
 
Tubamajuba said:
This comment shows that you haven't spent a single second trying to comprehend the viewpoint of anyone that disagrees with the decisions made by CVS, Rite-Aid, and any retailer that is disabling NFC to prevent the usage of Apple Pay.



Instead... you just insult them. Nice.
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For some reason there is a class of people that just cannot stand the idea that other people enjoy owning and using Apple products. It's like a mental illness.
 
NorEaster said:
To the 3 posters below.... if Apple chooses not to support MCX in their retail stores next year, will you show this much rage as well?
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Absolutely. If MCX comes out with a tool that allows already-existing terminals to accept payments without additional configuration, and Apple explicitly disables that ability after it's already proven to work, exactly as Rite Aid and CVS have done, I will dish out some righteous indignation. And I EXPECT you to call me out if I don't.

EVEN THOUGH I also feel that turnabout is fair play.

Or would you say: Hey, it's Apple's prerogative (not..it's their DAMN RIGHT!) to use whatever payment system they want.
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Apple, CVS and Rite Aid do have a right to use any payment system they want, so long as they don't intentionally interfere with the ability for other payment systems to work that require no other effort. And I have a right to not patronize them if they choose to be anticompetitive.


Just wondering why you guys think a business can't make its own rules on what they support or don't?
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Just wondering why you're putting words in my mouth. They have that right. And I have a right not to give them my money. Which is exactly what I'm doing.

Or are you just typical fanatics that want to bash anything anti-Apple because CVS somehow inflicted harm on you?
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I choose C: You're an Apple-basher who mistakes an advocate for interoperability to be a rabid Apple fan, because that's who you expect to bash. And you're willing to side on fragmentation just because you have a chip on your shoulder against a faceless corporation.

See how easy it is to make assumptions?
 
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RedOrchestra said:
You keep saying that with absolutely no grounds ... no one is being banned from shopping at any store. Credit cards, debit cards, and cash are accepted.
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If you understood what I'm talking about, which you don't, you'd stop posting this crap about nothing being banned. No one is saying anything about something being banned, We are talking about completive fairness. But you do not understand.
 
bdbolin said:
So unbelievable how these CEO's don't realize the potential of ApplePay. Nope, they want a large piece of the pie instead of a small piece - greedy greedy, they will all lose in the end.
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Yeah I'm shocked that these companies would want to go against apple. Bad move that they will likely end up regretting. It's not like apple said they had to ONLY use Apple pay.
 
I've been a CVS customer for years.

Just became a Walgreens customer today.

This is all just so petty, and so much of it has to do with them wanting to track all your purchases, which I can't stand. I hate always being slowed down by these processes, and then my email gets flooded with not only crap about stuff I've purchased, but anything I've browsed on a website.

This is the sort of thing that makes me not want to be a customer. Just let me give you my money for a product and call it a day. If you don't annoy me, I'll be back. If you annoy me, well, I have more options than ever in this day and age.
 
Tubamajuba said:
It is Apple's prerogative to not support MCX if that's the route they choose to go, and it is every consumer's right to not shop at the Apple Store if they have a problem with the lack of MCX support.

Much like the situation with merchants removing support for Apple Pay.
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What's your point? I never said it's not within their right to shop elsewhere. I'm just wondering why there's so much vindictiveness towards CVS. Many posters act as if some major harm just came to them from CVS's decision to not support a payment system that competes with what they plan on using.

It's very funny indeed to see all those who worship at the Chuch of Apple. The behavior in this forum is seriously cult-like. I'm a LONG time Apple user (30+ years) and I find no reason to express (or feel) indignation whenever some non-Apple company does something that can be construed as anti-Apple. At the end of the day, there are better things we should devote our attention to.

And having said that...I'll take my own advice and ignore the rest of this topic :)
 
So these retailers want to eliminate credit cards with this new system, well the Credit Card issuers could just as easily say they have to accept Apple Pay, Google Wallet etc. Otherwise they will remove the ability to accept their Credit Cards at all.

This movement is less about info and more about money (fees), banks are not going to mind, but Visa, MasterCard, American Express, etc, see that they might get squeezed out by retailers, they will fight back.
 
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