Grocery Store Chains Winn-Dixie and BI-LO Begin Accepting Apple Pay

[pmyoung]

Does the Apple Store accept Apple Pay?

I tried to pay for my iPhone with Apple Pay. No luck. Seems rather ironic to me.

 

[MusicaofTrance]

Grocery stores are suprisingly ahead of the curve. In Minnesota, Cub Foods was allowing Apple Pay from Day 1. They didnt advertise anything though.

Wait, do all Cub locations accept Apple Pay? I work at one (overnights), and I know that we use Verifone terminals and thought that they don't use NFC?

It would be nice to know, since I might be buying an iPhone 6 soon.

 

[sounak100]

Wait, do all Cub locations accept Apple Pay? I work at one (overnights), and I know that we use Verifone terminals and thought that they don't use NFC?

It would be nice to know, since I might be buying an iPhone 6 soon.

I have tried at St. Louis Park and at Plymouth Cub Foods multiple times and it worked at both places. I was using the self checkout terminals.

 

[cub850G2]

HyVee came to my home town outside of KC around the mid-90s. I worked there for a few years back in the day.



That's too bad. Damn, I didn't realize that they've wrapped up just about every gas station. I was really looking forward to quickly paying at the pump. The gas station is always a place that I stop at when I'm running late.

I wish that Apple Pay could also always pick 87 gasoline, no car wash, no receipt. Too many buttons, and I always make the same selections.

You know Hyvee had contactless payments for a short time and I was able to use it once and this was on 11/21/13 but I tried 3 months later and it was disabled and they even covered the EMV slot on their MX915's what a lame MCX member. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38348368/Hyveepaypass.PNG That was my first ever contactless payment transaction. Fareway Food Stores supports contactless as well, if you need a grocery store to use it at. With stores adding contactless payments like that I think it shows how much of an affect Apple Pay is really having.

 

[oddnendz]

Are you sure? If it's not operational how can it be hacked (http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/29/technology/security/currentc-app-hacked/) and what do the apps in the App Store and Google Play actually do?

Anyway, my questions was not about how fully operational or how backward a system it sounds like, but what were the benefits for consumers. If using CurrentC offered cheaper prices, it would be an obvious benefit.

It is in beta testing. It has been hacked... yes, only e-mail addresses. E-mail addresses today, your bank account tomorrow.

But even if they do offer discounted prices, is it worth giving up your bank account information, routing number, driver's license number and possibly, embarrassing health information to people who will sell your information about your spending habits to anyone, including possibly the government and insurance company?

 

[tigress666]

Kroger is the closest grocery to me. I'm pretty sure that's where my Amex card got compromised. I wish they'd jump on the Apple Pay bandwagon.

I wish they would too cause they also own the grocery store I go to the most here, Fred Meyer (we don't have Krogers here). So I'm guessing if Kroger does, eventually so will Fred Meyer (and QFC which is pretty much this areas Kroger, even sell Kroger brand products).

 

[TraceyS/FL]

Look on your US issued credit cards now, chances are it has PayPass or payWave, mine do, and I did use it a lot before Apple Pay

Nope, don't have it, and don't have any with chips either.

I bank at USAA for the last 5 years along with a local credit union. Before that I was with union Bank in CA (11 years ago). It's only been recently that I had a credit card - prior was probably 12-13 years at least.

 

[kennl66]

I just tried apple pay for the first time at winn dixie today and it went ok. The process is like this after the total amount showed:

1) placed iphone6 on the reader/screen, touch id worked the first time
2)" Enter Pin" shows on screen, cashier said hit cancel and payment accepted
3)cashier then asks to sign the screen

I didn't like those 2 extra steps, i almost drop my phone when I was signing the screen

I was wondering why I didn't get a notification after the transaction, passbook didn't show any amount. Here's a screenshot

 

[Ntombi]

My understanding is that credit transactions show the amount of the purchase. Debit card transactions do not.

 

[Ccrew]

According to CNBC, Google is ending Wallet. Saw that this morning on a couple news wires.

They're ending support for Wallet for digital purchases is all.
http://9to5google.com/2014/11/13/google-wallet-digital-purchases-sunset/

 

[rnizlek]

For the record, I've been using Apple Pay at Harris Teeter in DC without issues for a few weeks now.

 

[DigitalPharmcst]

Winn Dixie?? There hasn't been one in my area in almost 20 Years !! I thought they all closed down.

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For the record, I've been using Apple Pay at Harris Teeter in DC without issues for a few weeks now.

I had no idea that Harris Teeter was that far up North. The ones in North Carolina don't have the NFC terminals yet.

 

[djphat2000]

I just tried apple pay for the first time at winn dixie today and it went ok. The process is like this after the total amount showed:

1) placed iphone6 on the reader/screen, touch id worked the first time
2)" Enter Pin" shows on screen, cashier said hit cancel and payment accepted
3)cashier then asks to sign the screen

I didn't like those 2 extra steps, i almost drop my phone when I was signing the screen

I was wondering why I didn't get a notification after the transaction, passbook didn't show any amount. Here's a screenshot
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I got the same -- on my transaction with BJ's. However, the transaction didn't go thru completely. So I'm even more convinced that the lady at the register didn't do something on her end. I didn't use a Debit, I used credit.