Home Depot to Officially Support Apple Pay Following Retail System Upgrade

[ZCT]

Two down (Best Buy, Home Depot), many more to go.

Some of the prominent CurrentC supporters:

• 7-Eleven
• CVS
• Lowe's
• Michaels
• Sears
• Shell
• Sunoco
• Target
• Walmart

Oh I'm sure Apple are freely defecating on themselves. Not the power houses of Sears and Michaels?!? SAY IT AIN'T SO!

Are they really still in business?

Sears won't take Apple Pay because there is no way they can afford the terminals. They probably have mechanical cash registers.

Heck they changed their corporate logo years ago and still don't have the money to actually put up new signs on their stores!

 

[ron7624]

Where Apple pay worked here in Coeur d'Alene, ID at Home Depot in the past, as of May 13, 2015, it no longer works and is considered as "card tap" and is denied. The cashier was rather rude about it as well even though it has always worked in the past.

A rude cashier at a Home Depot is nothing new.

 

[dontwalkhand]

Oh I'm sure Apple are freely defecating on themselves. Not the power houses of Sears and Michaels?!? SAY IT AIN'T SO!

Are they really still in business?

Sears won't take Apple Pay because there is no way they can afford the terminals. They probably have mechanical cash registers.

Heck they changed their corporate logo years ago and still don't have the money to actually put up new signs on their stores!

They have new terminals actually, the same ones Walgreens uses, but they still have ancient POS systems. Also most major stores are supposed to get new terminals before this October because they have to enable chip card support. With these new terminals they also include NFC.

 

[klo6]

Probably in terms of sales, not location. For example, does McDonald's sell a product that costs $30 or $100 or 1000?

Sorry I just now saw your response! But no, not as in terms of sales. As in it's the largest RETAILER. McDonald's is a restaurant, not a retailer.

 

[cub850G2]

They have new terminals actually, the same ones Walgreens uses, but they still have ancient POS systems. Also most major stores are supposed to get new terminals before this October because they have to enable chip card support. With these new terminals they also include NFC.

I've seen some Sears on the Paypass locator, so some Sears may actucally have the contactless enabled. Also Home Depot is no longer on there of course, as Mastercards Paypass hasn't worked since like October 2014. Lately many restraunts like White Castle, Culvers, even a Jimmy Johns are now on the Paypass locator as well.

 

[dontwalkhand]

I've seen some Sears on the Paypass locator, so some Sears may actucally have the contactless enabled. Also Home Depot is no longer on there of course, as Mastercards Paypass hasn't worked since like October 2014. Lately many restraunts like White Castle, Culvers, even a Jimmy Johns are now on the Paypass locator as well.

Jimmy Johns? I am curious what kind of terminals they bought. Their sandwiches aren't that great though for me to go in and look. They did just get hacked.

Also Culver's I'm very interested in.

 

[cub850G2]

Jimmy Johns? I am curious what kind of terminals they bought. Their sandwiches aren't that great though for me to go in and look. They did just get hacked.

Also Culver's I'm very interested in.

These aren't local to me, as I was looking a certain zip codes on the Paypass locator and they were on there, come to think of it I've seen Little Cesears Pizza and Papa Murphy's on there as well, but none locally of course. Once Home Depot turns it back on I'm sure they will appear on the Apple Pay website hopefully or people will start posting success stores on here, hopefully in the next month that will happen.

 

[mainstreetmark]

But you don't mind sounding like a jackass admitting on here that you refuse to wave your phone in front of an NFC terminal that has been confirmed months ago to support Apple Pay, on the off chance that it might not work and you'd look stupid for it, somehow? There's a Sprouts I go to that specifically takes Apple Pay, but it declines me every time I use it (still takes the same card in plastic, though.) They told me it fails about half of the time.

What else do you stop yourself from doing with your life due to the risk that people might make fun of you?

What an excessively negative reply! I don't stop myself from experiments in public humiliations, but I certainly do try and avoid adding inconvenience and delay to other customers in line for a selfish experiment. Since we've crossed the ad hominem line, are you the kind of person that cuts to the end of a highway merge to save yourself time, at the expense of the hundred people you pass?

There are many NFC terminals, at home depot and publix, for example, that look like they are going to work, but ultimately decline due to some unpublished backside non-conformance. A NFC terminal is not an Apple Pay terminal. It failed at Home Depot, and it failed at Publix. It may also have failed at CVS.

So, three for three times I tried to use it at a vendor I didn't already know accepted Apple Pay, it did not work. It has, however, worked at Firehouse Subs, and it's pretty great when it does.

 

[tmiw]

A couple of my friends tried to use Apple Pay at Home Depot and somehow their phone brought up the App Store page for Home Depot. Anyone else experience this? I'm not sure how that's even possible.

 

[BruiserB]

Any info on when Home Depot will be re-enabling ApplePay? I'm about to have some tile installed through them and would love to ApplePay for it with my new Discover Card! (22% off)

 

[dontwalkhand]

Any info on when Home Depot will be re-enabling ApplePay? I'm about to have some tile installed through them and would love to ApplePay for it with my new Discover Card! (22% off)

They just turned on Chip & PIN, for both Credit And Debit, but no Apple Pay yet , It just says Insert or Slide Card, no contactless symbol.

 

[BruiserB]

They just turned on Chip & PIN, for both Credit And Debit, but no Apple Pay yet , It just says Insert or Slide Card, no contactless symbol.

Yea, I just tried it this morning on a small purchase with no luck. The terminal didn't even engage the ApplePay on my phone, so the NFC functionality must be totally switched off. Would sure love them to turn it back on!

 

[dontwalkhand]

Yea, I just tried it this morning on a small purchase with no luck. The terminal didn't even engage the ApplePay on my phone, so the NFC functionality must be totally switched off. Would sure love them to turn it back on!

I read that there's a delay in turning it on because it requires different certifications than regular chip & PIN transactions. Whereas before it ran over magstripe so it didn't require any certifications at all.

 

[tmiw]

I read that there's a delay in turning it on because it requires different certifications than regular chip & PIN transactions. Whereas before it ran over magstripe so it didn't require any certifications at all.

I wonder why they didn't get the certifications done at the same time, then. Unless they weren't actually planning on supporting NFC until a ton of people complained when it got turned off?

 

[mac.cali]

I wonder if they've turned on Apple Pay yet? I've seen their terminals have been upgraded, but no contactless payments.

 

[Weaselboy]

I wonder if they've turned on Apple Pay yet? I've seen their terminals have been upgraded, but no contactless payments.

I was in HD a couple days ago (California) and they have not turned it on yet here.

 

[PilotC150]

I haven't seen it turned on yet, either. For a long time after they turned it off, their card readers still showed the contactless payment icon. Now even that is gone.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Home Despot is an interesting entity...

I saw 'Gigaloo' in their store once. Yes, it's 'black oil'...

One time, while waiting for a price check, I was regaled by a neighboring cashier talking about how their assistant manager was buying liquor for the underage employees. Without a 'cut'. Such a nice guy...

I'm not sure that Home Despot can pull it off without fumbling the ball and doing something incredibly ill thought ought...

I sure hope they pull it off though. They sell some stuff that I can't get at the local Lowes store, and it's so easy to spend money with Apple Pay... Cha-Ching!!!

 

[I7guy]

Home Despot is an interesting entity...

I saw 'Gigaloo' in their store once. Yes, it's 'black oil'...

One time, while waiting for a price check, I was regaled by a neighboring cashier talking about how their assistant manager was buying liquor for the underage employees. Without a 'cut'. Such a nice guy...

I'm not sure that Home Despot can pull it off without fumbling the ball and doing something incredibly ill thought ought...

I sure hope they pull it off though. They sell some stuff that I can't get at the local Lowes store, and it's so easy to spend money with Apple Pay... Cha-Ching!!!

Ya know, I have a credit card registered with apple pay and have been to stores supporting apple pay, but it's so ingrained in me that when I pay for something out comes the wallet, rather than out comes the phone.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Ya know, I have a credit card registered with apple pay and have been to stores supporting apple pay, but it's so ingrained in me that when I pay for something out comes the wallet, rather than out comes the phone.

And just like the places that now insist on using the chip readers. DOH! Gotta stick it in the slot...

Which, for the level of jerkiness, the ones at Target have to be the worst. At least the ones here. They practically honk at you when it's time to remove the card from the slot. VERY annoying, and they give you no warning, they just *HONK* and flash 'Remove card'. They are the most annoying things... And yet another store I shop at has the same POS system terminals, and they don't behave so rudely...

But, I hear you. I'm getting better. Now I automatically reach for my iPhone, and when they say 'Not yet.', I give a surprised sound and ask 'When?'...