I was just able to add my Lowe's Business Rewards Card to Apple Pay, it's a branded AMEX. The standard Lowe's card is through Synchrony Bank, so I guess that's the difference.
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Lowe's Retail Stores Now Accept Apple Pay
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I prefer Lowe's because it's closer to my home, but not by much. The biggest downside of Lowe's for me is the lack of Milwaukee tools...
I would think that Synchrony Bank would get on board with Apple Pay since they claim to be the largest provider of digitally-enabled retail credit cards. But as of now, no joy.
There’s so much fraud through Home Depot. If that’s why they aren’t allowing it, they never will.
In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, most small businesses in big cities there accept only cash payment and not accept card payments.
Some European banks do not accept Apple Pay but accept Google Pay. For example, Norway’s largest bank, DNB bank, does not accept Apple Pay but accept Google Pay.
In the USA, it is common for some businesses to accept physical card payment but not accept contactless payments, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
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What's particularly atrocious about HD's aversion of contactless payments in general and Apple Pay (either by prejudice or inclusion) is they were the victims of a fairly major security breach. If I were in their leadership I would be tripping over myself to implement contactless payment with Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay.... anything to minimize my exposure to future breaches.
For some reason these idiots keep saying "naaa, we've got this. Trust us. Please ignore our previous incompetence, we're doing better. So much so that we refuse to adopt technologies that 100% eliminate the merest possibility of what happened to us last time." The people that sell you wood, screws, fertilizer and planting pots are FAR, FAR smarter about financial/tech security than those idiotic tech companies.
Weird. Here in europe always worked everywhere… like whoever was accepting cards was automatically accepting applepay too. Even online.
That’s odd. The main card I use is the Apple Card and I assumed all cards in the Wallet would work similarly. Maybe it’s a security feature of the issuer?
if you have lock-in or some other loyalty to a brand of power tools, you're much better off shopping on-line.
Personally, I'm a Bosh guy. Porter Cable a close second, but the major retailers become very closely aligned with those brands and create contracts that make them nearly exclusive.
You might be surprised at how few companies actually make all the tools we purchase.
Europe had the “benefit” of having a poorer telecommunications network. In the US, companies could clear a transaction in a matter of seconds using the reliable phone networks. Just swipe and done. In Europe, this was not as guaranteed in a lot of places, so chip and pin was a good workaround.
And, when the next big thing was introduced, capable hardware was either already widespread or included in those vendors next rollouts. The US had to be pushed by the CC companies in the way of rule changes.
Lowes is such horrible quality and worse customer service
that I refused a $50 gift card from a neighbor.
just this sunday
that I refused a $50 gift card from a neighbor.
just this sunday
Someone can steal your chip card and use it to make purchases. If they steal your phone, they cannot use your apple pay.
And HEB, Hobby Lobby, Winco Foods all top 100 retailers. Then after that there are smaller ones like Paper Source, Graybar, and Guitar Center. All stores over a hunded locations.
It's supposed to be everywhere. Where is it that doesn't?The ones around here don't. They have started adding it in April, but it's not enabled everywhere.
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Every time I visit the US, I feel like I’m stepping back in time. In Canada, tap to pay is everywhere, and it’s been on our debit cards for years before Apple Pay was ever a thing. I still don’t understand why restaraunts in the US take your credit card away from the table and bring it back with a paper slip to sign. Just bring me a portable terminal, let me add a tip, and tap to pay.
Yes. I’ve already shopped at Ace as much as I can because they take Apple Pay, but it is more expensive. Now I can shop more at Lowe’s, skip Ace, and save money.
Any retail merchant, either brick and mortar or online, should adopt ApplePay immediately if they haven't already. Or be consigned to the dustbin of history. Especially as long as Apple continues to offer the 2% cash back!
Oh yeah, they kind of did.
The third party that HD used is called "SheerID", and Lowe's used ID.me.
SheerID sent me an email requesting the following information after failing to verify themselves automatically.
I am out of ideas as for what else other than a DD-214 would have all of these info.
The irony is that, these third party should have those information without us sending them anything. Otherwise, what the heck are they good for?
I've actually heard that card acceptance there has gotten a lot better since the EU capped interchange to ~0.3% or whatever.
Meanwhile, more and more stores in the US (mainly smaller ones so far) are charging extra for card use because it's literally an order of magnitude more expensive for them. If it wasn't for the fact that card acceptance is basically expected by customers at this point, most stores in this country would still be cash only to this day.
Personally, it's poor regulation. The US could have had chip and contactless a lot earlier with some foresight, but instead we waited until our cards literally started having compatibility problems overseas (combined with a few high profile security breaches) before even bothering to transition--and even then, it was pretty half-assed IMO (among other problems: no mandatory PIN, contactless not being required and no requirement for customer handling of the terminal*). Hell, it took a pandemic for Americans to even start bothering to tap cards, despite Apple Pay having been around for more than half a decade by that point.
So no, I don't think we should get any credit for supposedly having 40% contactless usage now. At best, we caught up to what the rest of the world's been doing for 5-10 years+ by now.
* This is particularly problematic because this guarantees the US will never have 100% Apple Pay acceptance. We might still get close to 100% on tapping physical contactless cards, but only because the employees can still tap those for customers.
Considering that high interchange pays for CC rewards, it does make me wonder if there would have been a whole lot less resistance if interchange was capped to very low levels (or even replaced with a flat fee per transaction or something). If nothing else, stores in the US would likely be a lot more okay with CC use than they apparently are now.