I'm pro ApplePay ( use it on my iPhone and Apple Watch) and I use Android Pay on my Nexus. I love the convenience and simplicity. Opening a separate app and scanning the QR code seemed like a pain, I and I still don't like the Walmart plan. However, I have no issue using the Starbucks app to pay for my coffee. Maybe it's the loyalty points I get at Starbucks that makes me go through the extra steps but I fee somewhat like a hypocrite for hating the QR code method of payment.
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MCX Ends CurrentC Beta Test, Postpones All Further Releases
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Walmart Pay has been successful so far. And it hasn't been rolled out nationally yet. With the recent expansion to 600 additional stores, they'll use the experiences of customers to have it ready in time for the upcoming holiday season. If anything, it'll encourage other large retailers to come up with their own similar system. So it'll be Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, Walmart Pay, Google Wallet Coin, Target Pay supposedly in the works, etc, etc, etc.
And that's what will kill all of them.
All that money and work wasted for nothing. Not to mention slowing the adoption of contactless payments. Whoever came up with this CurrentC idea should be thrown in the pool. While wearing their most expensive outfit. And their phone in their pocket.
C'mon, all together now... Awwwwwww. See MR members can be united on something. 
I don't understand. Samsung pay is one of the best mobile pay solutions available. I wish both Apple and Android Pay had an MST option. If they did, then I could see Samsung bowing out of that race.
MCX? That was a classic example of obstinate behavior in spite of overwhelming evidence that their idea was terrible.
You are both correct. Have a friend who manages a fast food restaurant and explained to me that payment systems will charge your credit card. However, if the merchant's system is not configured, paying for a certain payment card or NFP, the merchant will not get paid. Just plan wrong, needs fixing.
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Not necessarily. I mean, most people visit the same grocery store, gas station, etc. on a day to day basis, so it's not like people will need that many apps. Not to mention that a separate app makes it easier to offer rewards and stuff like mobile ordering/checkout, which saves far more time due to not having to wait in line in the first place.
Honestly, Apple Pay doesn't really add much other than a few seconds' worth of time savings. And that might even be questionable in a year or two as chip becomes faster.
So glad this horrendous waste of people's time is finally on its way out. MCX, die already!
That is why the Starbucks scan to pay app works because they build in a "rewards" program by using that payment option.
And it's pretty tightly integrated into iOS too. I don't think I'd bother even with the rewards if I couldn't add the Starbucks card to Wallet.
Given that it's only been available in the US since March I think it's a little premature to suggest it's one of the best.
You are mad at the wrong people. If Apple pay was better, you would be able to say "I want to pay by credit card" and then just tap your iPhone on the reader.
It is Apple that wants to make their own unique brand name (Apple pay) for everything.
What a professional-looking announcement. That one admin assistant must have spent all day polishing the creative.
Seriously. I only ever wanted this thing to fail so that Apple Pay can be more ubiquitous at the stores I shop at.
Not likely. For many, Walmart is their only choice. The retailer had tens of millions if transactions each with its Walmart app before integrating Walmart Pay. It'll institute rewards later this year, integrated coupons already and Target is next up. And if course, there are tons of people that'll never buy and use an iPhone, so Samsung/Android it is.
As each retailer creates its own version, all that data stays with them and pays dividends in so many ways. One if the supposed benefits of MCX's now dead efforts.
Why are they waiting three weeks to "officially" kill it? The damn thing is already dead.
The Merchant Consortium Exchange, aka MCX, today told beta testers that it is suspending its CurrentC beta test on June 28 and postponing all further releases of the payments platform.
Article Link: MCX Ends CurrentC Beta Test, Postpones All Further Releases
Ha ha! Bye!
I resurrected my nearly 2 year old comparison of ApplePay with a CC vs. MCX CurrentC.
