The banks will make sure that happens. If the banks and VISA, MC etc... say there is a cost to not supporting it, retailers will cave so fast it'll make your head spin. I'm happy to keep my money in my pocket.
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Many Retailers Hesitant About Offering Support for Apple Pay
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The banks will make sure that happens. If the banks and VISA, MC etc... say there is a cost to not supporting it, retailers will cave so fast it'll make your head spin. I'm happy to keep my money in my pocket.
Right, like every store who doesn't invoke NFC is going to suddenly go out of business. That's hilarious.
They will have a lot of frustrated customers if they are the last to come aboard. It's like a place that only accepts cash.... sorry, but I don't shop at those places because I don't carry cash!
In a few years people will just not carry their credit cards. And when someone says "sorry we don't have NFC!" I'll say "sorry, I don't carry credit cards anymore!"
Having been part of both Home Depot and Target breaches, I will not shop anywhere that doesn't take Apple Pay for significant purchases. I'm going back to checks and cash, I don't care how long it takes to write a check. Best Buy just doesn't want to upset Samsung.
I'm sure they do like it, it speeds up payment at the till after all. A large retailer with people queuing is more likely to upgrade compared to a small mom+pop store.
It also comes down to economics, the store has to pay for the system and they'll be waiting until the cost of new NFC units are attractive compared to replacing or maintaining current chip+pin units.
Isis? LOL that kinda sucks, that group is kinda tarnishing that name, they should go after them and force them to change it
.If I have the choice between 2 very similar businesses, I will opt for the one that usesPay. Bring on the future, America. Get out of the plastic past!
Out of interest, would the price of the product make a difference? In all honesty, if the Apple Pay retailer's price was a couple of pounds/dollars/euros more, would you still go there?
i am just speaking from experience visiting relatives in "upper class" Vermont ^^ could have been said by them
Or they could just do the payments with their iPad and keep it moving like many mom and pops here in NYC.
I think allMerchants either choose to support NFC or not. They don't have to choose between
Pay articles should include a notice that say something like this quote every time to avoid the same misinformation in every forum discussion. It's not about these merchants "signing up to allow Pay, they just need to be equipped to accept NFC. Merchants on the no-list will begin to appear behind the times, simply because it will become safe to assume they are using old POS hardware.I wonder if some merchants are saying that they don't support
Pay because they are looking to strike up deals with other payment solutions to say they officially support a competitor... while actually supporting all NFC.You are absolutely correct but in case of apple pay its not a question of if supported its when. Remember the number of apple iPhone 6 users is nothing compared to non apple I iPhone 6 users and apple iphopne market share is small. Android has NFC support and with sofcard/Isis nothing has changed its been so slow for retailers to adopt it. I have been using my google wallet tap to pay for a while and also softcxard at jamba juice and that's it.
Just like restaurants back long ago who doesn't take credit cards even only cash! Eventually people stopped going and they understood and accepted credit cards or else they lose customers. This isn't easy to accept because when you are dealing with payments and transactions fees most retailers want some sort of incentive. So its not question of if NFC payments are going mainstream its more of when and that answer is going to be in the years out maybe 4-5 years. Like I said most of these accepted apple pay places should start at gas pumps, 7 11 markets and grocery stores.
Hate to break it to you, but the world pays a lot more attention to Apple products than they do others. When Apple does something, companies pay attention. So watch for this to balloon up, because Apple jumped in. WHO CARES what they said in the past.... in the past they weren't ready.
And comparing NFC to Apple Pay is NOT the same thing. Sure it uses NFC tech, but Apple Pay uses your fingerprint for identification and a secure on-device chip for storage and tokenization.
Retailers are much more likely to jump on NFC if they feel like they have a more secure method of payment, i.e. Apple Pay.
Leave the goods sitting there at the cash register for the cashier to put back and bop off....
This sounds to me that most of them are not setup to accept Mobile Payments... Period! So, in a away it doesn't just affect Apple but other NFC enabled telephones as well.
I would say great spin by the media.
I would say great spin by the media.
Does anyone still shop at Best Buy, Sears, or Kmart anymore?
Amazon prime means everything at those stores gets to my doorstep in 2 days' time.
Amazon prime means everything at those stores gets to my doorstep in 2 days' time.
Yeah, the world doesn't quite work like that.
Apple does not dictate how people make purchases and how people spend their money. People will continue to use plastic and stores will continue to accept plastic for many many years.
NFC will slowly start coming into play, but it isn't even close to being a primary payment method at this point. While some major companies are on board, plenty more smaller companies and Mom and Pop stores won't.
Imagine, if you will, you're taking a vacation somewhere outside of a major city. You only have your iPhone with you and no plastic, because you don't want to do business anywhere you can't use your iPhone for purchases.
You run out of gas. The only gas station near you still accepts plastic.
You're going to feel mighty silly trying to pay for gas using your iPhone.
No offense, it's your life style after all. But it's not so much that I personally don't like cash, but doesn't that mean you have to run to ATM all the time? Or do you just carry around couple hundreds with you at all time?
Doesn't that also mean if you are going out for a family dinner or anything, you'd have to first estimate how much you might have to pay then go to ATM, and say if you decided to order a few more dishes or having to buy something on the way home you are out of luck or have to look for ATM again?
(I'm assuming when you said cash you really mean cash and not debit card)
It's all or nothing. You accept NFC and take all companies like Apple Pay and Google Wallet or you don't accept NFC at all.
Realize that there are potentially two really good reasons to not support ApplePay or not be on yet.
1. They sttill want to continue harvasting data from and tracking their customers, security be damned.
2. Contractually locked into agreeements with a payment processor who doesnt support or doesnt want(see 1) ApplePay.
1. They sttill want to continue harvasting data from and tracking their customers, security be damned.
2. Contractually locked into agreeements with a payment processor who doesnt support or doesnt want(see 1) ApplePay.