Seriously???? You drove to a CVS, pushed a cart all around the store, filling it with stuff, stood in line, waited for all those items to be scanned, then drove to Walgreens and bought the same items???
I don't believe you.
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CVS Stores Reportedly Disabling NFC to Shut Down Apple Pay and Google Wallet
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Seriously???? You drove to a CVS, pushed a cart all around the store, filling it with stuff, stood in line, waited for all those items to be scanned, then drove to Walgreens and bought the same items???
I don't believe you.
You need to read up on the laws that limit what can be charged for this type of service. Its in the DoddFrank bill. The banks are paying Apple for the security. Trying to get merchants to lock out banks and CC companies was never going to happen anyway. Apple could just as well take a cut from CurrentC transactions as theyve done with in app purchases for awhile now.
Wow...oops. I hope you don't tell any of my patients! Oh yeah, this is anonymous, you don't know who the ******* I am, and I really don't give a flying ******* what you think. Whew! That was close! I ALMOST gave a rat's a** what you just said!
And for what valid reason would a payment service want to see my HealthKit data. If I record blood pressure, medication info, exercise data, maybe diabetic data. What does that have to do with paying for a set of batteries?
IT'S NOT RIGHT
I own 2 collision shops and we take all credit card and checks, and we will be putting in NFC. I believe my customers will not only like to use it, some may demand it! I've said here several times, but I'll say it again, why would any business limit how they take money to get paid!
Off topic, I'm happy to hear you were happy with the shops repairs. I'm just surprised this day & age they're not at the very least taking credit cards. To your other issue with over pay under repair, I'm not sure of your situation but good quality collision shops do not under repair! I can tell you one sad thing in the collision industry, is insurance companies not paying to repair cars properly! Unfortunately this is a whole other conversation I would love to have with the right people!!!!!
We should round up a posse and go after them. Goat rustling is a hangin' crime in these parts.
I spit on my screen when you suggested Google as a way to prevent data mining ;-), THAT is funny.
Apple pay can be used for debit purchases I suppose? If this is the case, then that is probably the better way to privacy. Banks have less tendency to sell your data... Because they're gouging you on service fees anyway and we expect privacy from them... They don't need to bleed you more
.Delusion is continuing to claim the iPhone costs $1000. Unless you'd like to qualify that to non-US dollars.
Just bought a vehicle 2 weeks ago...got it for 30% cheaper than he wanted.... Cash...bought a new guitar a few months ago, price went from 2grand to 1500 in seconds, as soon as I said "how much is in cash"..
Like I said I know I'm in the minority but if you truly want to not be tracked and like to pay less, use cash for major purchases. My wife and daughters swipe for everything. Nothing wrong with it but I save thousands a year just using cash.
I did all that at a Walmart, but my blood sugar was low. I paid for the Orange juice I drank, and when it came up, I looked at the cart, and thought, "what the heck am i going to make with 10 bags of cereal, 3 hams, kielbasa, and frozen fried okra?
I have never been more grateful for a busy store that was huge enough to obscure me.
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Wow! CVS and Rite Aide couldnt pay for this kind of negative publicity if they tried. Their FB Pages are filled with complaints about them not supporting ApplePay.
I dont know how they can recover because their stores are not clean and they dont offer way better service or lower prices than Walgreens.
I dont know how they can recover because their stores are not clean and they dont offer way better service or lower prices than Walgreens.
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Exactly! Looks like I wasn't so over the top after all. I read those articles too. That's why I made the statement trading medical info for discounts.
Yep! Dave Ramsey is right when he says that when people see cash, they know they can use it right away. Anything else takes time and risks, like your check will bounce.
It depends. Cash is less secure and prone to theft by humans or human error in general. You have no recourse if you lose cash or it gets stolen.
The people complaining should create their own posts. Posting those kind of complaints in a "Check out how Rite Aid helped makeover two breast cancer survivors on ABC's The View" is tacky.
I weekly from my customers collect thousands in cash and occasionally a check or two a month.. I work as a contractor in high end homes and even the wealthy love a cash discount. I've done large commercial jobs and collected envelopes of cash.. Cash is king and no amount of someone telling you that cc is better matters because when I walk in and tell you its 5000 for check or 4500 for cash almost every customer in the last 20 years picks the cash deal. And so would you.
I don't know. I don't think that was a very responsible response. Sure, their management needs to know that there is a large market (of Apple users) that are not happy with their decision, but I bet your little statement didn't make it past the tellers.
And like others said, I doubt you went to Walgreens and bought a basket *full* of goods afterwards.
Such a card wouldn't be useful to you as a plastic card in your wallet. It wouldn't be useful anywhere that didn't take Apple Pay. So you would not carry the card at all. You also couldn't use it to order things online, except through apps that use Apple Pay. Basically, once you entered the card into Apple Pay, you'd lock it up in a safe place and never get it out again.
But you can do that with any card, so there's no need for a special one. Just get a new card with a new number, enter it into Apple Pay, and then lock the card in a safe. No one but you and the bank would have the number.
I suppose for extra measure you could ask the bank to consider any use of the account number to be fraudulent, and to only approve charges that come through tokenized. So maybe that's what you're asking for.
People are picking the discount. You discount something $500 it would be silly for them not to take the discount. Where is the discount with relation to this story? Oh right there isnt one. There is no incentive for cvs and rite aid to charge less than has already been charged. One off transactions are a bad comparisson and people forget the lesson of history as it relates to cash and why debit/credit cards came in to be.
I am a contractor that works in the greater New York area in mostly expensive home and chooses to make cash deals to help my customers pay less. Never said I didn't have a bank account. Just said I deal mostly in cash, roughly 90 to 95%.. People never complain about it. My wife and kids used debit and credit cards, I don't.
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I just made a statement that I don't use anything but cash and some people found it hard to believe, I was clarifying what I said. It sucks that CVS and rite aid are being ridiculous, I agree, but for a guy like me it doesn't matter much.
Rite Aid did this to themselves. The customers complain where they can. Its tacky to let this issue completely overshadow the work theyve done with BC victims. They shouldve known better. They couldve waited a few days to drop the hammer if BC victims were that important to them past the Rite Aid photo op marketing opportunity.