Not anymore. I recently noticed that walgreens has removed the nfc capability from its balance rewards card and now it shows up in wallet as a regular pass (and it can no longer be accessed from apple watch by double clicking the side button)
Really? Kroger purchased HT in 2013, and Apple Pay was introduced in fall 2014. I remember using Apple Pay at HT as recently as around 2015-2016.
Apple Watch: two hands involved (that is, both of mine).
If anything it makes me AVOID places that don't take AP. And they say BS about it being more convenient to use there app. NO it's LESS convenient to have to use a separate app everywhere!
Our Wawa AP Readers broke when they added chip card readers. Sheetz still work fine and they have chip card readers too now. So bye bye Wawa. So freaking annoying to hear like eight pumps speaking they take chip cards now out of sync also. That in itself would be enough to drive me away. Sheetz just has signs.
HD Lowe's is the most annoying because at least if only one took it, I would just go there all the time.
They’re actually similar. When using apple watch, the second hand is only used for an instant to double press the button. After that, both hands are free to handle shopping bags and your phone is in your pocket. Besides usually you grab the shopping bags after you’ve already paid, not before or while you pay.
Interesting.
I only use Apple Pay with the phone when I go to my car dealer to have my car serviced or repaired. Car dealers here in Mexico usually have the cashiers behind a window with a narrow opening on the bottom, so it’d be difficult or even impossible to use the apple watch (the arm won’t fit through the opening, but the phone still does)
After posting I noticed they fixed it, but it was indeed gone for a couple of days.
No, not similar. You say, "second hand is only used for an instant", but that means using a hand that may have touched something that's not yours, thus potentially infected surfaces. That it's "only for an instant" doesn't help - there's no 3-second rule for virus.
I meant similarly convenient. As far as contamination, I think you’re being a bit too paranoid. Supermarkets and other businesses around the world have been taking a lot of measures to prevent it, some of them extreme. In Canada, for instance, they’ve even started requiring people to wash and/or disinfect their hands when they walk into the store and they also prohibit using cell phones while inside the store except for payment at the registers.
This. I suppose if I knew ahead of time, I could print out a paper list at home, but it's less handy.
They consider the phones to be a source of contamination, that’s the argument for such a measure.
