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

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

I wonder if VISA/MC/Amex have any recourse for these stores disabling contactless payments? Seems like there should have been something in their user agreements about this.
 
Steps to get CVS on board:

1. Go to CVS on 11/11/14 (for impact, 411)
2. Fill cart to the brim with items
3. Attempt to use Apple Pay and when it doesn't work - leave.

CVS will get the message loud and clear when they have to restock carts of various items nationwide.

Blocking these things just doesn't make sense. Whatever it is Google, Apple whomever. It is a digital form of US currency in which I find it hard to believe they wouldn't want it.
 
Statcoder said:
Something that I never do - allow any merchant or utility to draw from my checking account. Every try to get money back from a utility after you've been overcharged? It's worse than pulling teeth. These institutions are simply not set up to transfer money to their customers. Do you think they will pay for any overdraft charges if they empty your bank account?

With a credit card charge you can contest any charge and they will credit your account immediately until the issue is resolved.
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what is worse, is that this information is stored in the "cloud" on MCX's servers. Just slap a target on it.... someone will break in and post your checking account numbers and routing info on pastebin within a year, I bet you...
 
diazj3 said:
Let me disabuse you of the notion that Apple Pay is free, or that Apple has nothing to gain from it but to make its users happy. You will pay for it, one way or another. But you will pay.

Cheers!
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What credit card is Free? Merchants pay a transaction fee / percent on all of them - for good reason. A cash-only store will not get the same business as a store that accepts forms of credit as payment. They gain a customer they otherwise would not have had, and move merchandise as a result. They pay a relatively small fee to the bank or enterprise that enabled/empowered the buyer to be able to make a purchase that likely would not have occurred were only cash accepted. It is an absolute necessity (and fact) of today's economy. If Apple Pay, or Google Wallet or an American Express Card gets a customer in the door that would otherwise not have existed, the small fee is fair. The fee for - not having enough customers - is failure.
 
samcraig said:
But most complaining have only had such an option for a few days. That's why it reeks of entitlement
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I would think that those who have already been using NFC for years be it Google Wallet or whatever would be the most 'entitled' ones. Wouldn't the argument be that since their contactless payment was acceptable before -- shouldn't they be entitled to pay with their method and only the unacceptable one denied? CVS is killing all NFC payment, to spite ApplePay, so that I guess they can claim impartiality. iPhone 6 owners are just calling CVS on their BS.

IMO, haters are being haters here. Where the shoe on the other foot posters would be laughing at the misfortune of Samsung or LG or Windows phone users. I'm surprised the news about Samsung KNOX security being completely compromised hasn't been posted. Maybe it is unfounded?
 
Count Blah said:
And there are some who will defend apple's every move, and freak at ANY criticism of Apple, No matter what. Just look at the defense of the new "improved" Mac mini.
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Reminder, this affects Google Wallet too. So, this is not "just defending Apple" for those bitching about Apple fanboys....
 
zioxide said:
Huh?

NFC is a worldwide payment standard backed by VISA, Mastercard, AMEX, and tons of the biggest worldwide banks.

It's amazing how so few people in this thread actually understand what they are talking about.
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Actually, no. And the "so few people" includes you.

NFC is a mechanism for data interchange. It can certainly be used to transport payment information but that's not its only use.
 
zioxide said:
Huh?

NFC is a worldwide payment standard backed by VISA, Mastercard, AMEX, and tons of the biggest worldwide banks.

It's amazing how so few people in this thread actually understand what they are talking about.
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Yea some people just love to post nonsense...

But I think the anti competition committee (I forget what they are called) might have something to say to the merchant exchange programme people...
 
FriednTested said:
Yea some people just love to post nonsense...

But I think the anti competition committee (I forget what they are called) might have something to say to the merchant exchange programme people...
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Only some people? You're overly generous and see the good in people. That's a nice attribute :)
 
I'm boycotting CVS and Rite Aid stores for making such a stupid decision that inevitably affects millions of Apple and Google users. I already stopped shopping at Best Buy for backing away from accepting Apple Pay. I say we all, Apple and Google, users make our voices heard by not shopping at such businesses.
 
StyxMaker said:
Actually it reeks of concern for security and privacy. Why are you so opposed to people having secure and private credit card transactions?
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Apparently, concern for security and privacy is some sort elitist entitlement and we need to be good little sheep and lemmings and turn every scrap of personal information to the big business and government. :rolleyes:
 
Saipher said:
I'm boycotting CVS and Rite Aid stores for making such a stupid decision that inevitably affects millions of Apple and Google users. I already stopped shopping at Best Buy for backing away from accepting Apple Pay. I say we all, Apple and Google, users make our voices heard by not shopping at such businesses.
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Not to mention those of us who use contactless cards. A contactless card, while no more secure than a contact chip card (which will be widespread soon) is much more secure than a magnetic stripe transaction.
 
Saipher said:
I'm boycotting CVS and Rite Aid stores for making such a stupid decision that inevitably affects millions of Apple and Google users. I already stopped shopping at Best Buy for backing away from accepting Apple Pay. I say we all, Apple and Google, users make our voices heard by not shopping at such businesses.
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"Boycott"... SO dramatic...

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Substitute every instance of the word "partyyyy" with "to use Apple payyyyy!"


oooooh, you guyyyys :D
 
as of late...it seems lot of retailers aren't supporting Apple pay...mainly because they have mcx...or whatever...

still...even though there are lot of major companies supporting apple pay...some other major companies that don't support apple pay will more likely to increase....and makes apple pay useless...
 
CurrentC works by using a QR code! Funniest thing I've heard today. That should work great.
 
RockSpider said:
Maybe you should blame Apple, I suBose not.
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Apple has made the decision to willingly turn away any money they would have received from people buying Bose products.

CVS and Rite-Aid have made the decision to willingly turn away any money they would have made from people buying *any* product using any form of NFC payment.

Which of those two decisions has a dangerous implication for consumers in the long run? The Bose thing isn't even in the same league. I don't expect to see a mass movement of retailers dropping products like flies just because Apple no longer carries Bose products. I do, however, foresee a stall in the adoption rate of NFC due to moves like this.
 
What's everyone crying about? How did you ever make purchases before apple pay?
Life goes on.
 
Moto G said:
"Boycott"... SO dramatic...
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Maybe dramatic in your opinion, but isn't consumer boycott a freedom of expression? ;)

What better way for a consumer to exercise power than to stop spending money at a particular business?
 
Moto G said:
"Boycott"... SO dramatic...

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oooooh, you guyyyys :D
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That looks more like a picket or demonstration. Boycotts aren't really dramatic at all. Easily carried out by total absence from the retailer's premises really.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion.
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NY Guitarist said:
Maybe dramatic in your opinion, but isn't consumer boycott a freedom of expression? ;)

What better way for a consumer to exercise power than to stop spending money at a particular business?
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Exactly what percentage of Apple Pay users do Macrumors members presume to think that they make up? 0.1%? 0.01%? I'd say probably 0.00000000001%... so go ahead and "make a stand" LMAO.
 
I still think we fill up carts and attempt to use Apple Pay or Google Wallet nationwide. When they say it doesn't work they are left with a mess to clean up.
 
Target is an Apple Pay Sponsor

TraceyS/FL said:
The list is pretty long. There is at least one that is an ApplePay partner AND an MCX member too (Wegmans maybe?). Not sure how that is going to fly.

CurrentC is in active beta right now, that much I know.

ETA: Meijer is the double-dipper - thanks Bruiser!
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Target supports Apple Pay, and its also in their IOS app.
 
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