Sorry, but I have no obligation to shop anywhere, except possibly government agencies with no competitors.
But you are correct: there's no point in harassing the cashier. Ask to talk to the manager, and tell them you won't be back.
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Rite Aid Disables Apple Pay Support After Initially Accepting Payments
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Sorry, but I have no obligation to shop anywhere, except possibly government agencies with no competitors.
But you are correct: there's no point in harassing the cashier. Ask to talk to the manager, and tell them you won't be back.
CVS works just fine with Apple Pay. You could still shop there with your loyalty card.
I usedPay in a Rite Aid last night, they made me sign the receipt afterwards. Now this? I'll stick with CVS.
I don't understand wtf the MCX is really about. Ok, they hate NFC, but what alternative are they offering? And if Rite Aid was real about their MCX membership, they wouldn't accept any NFC payment at all (like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy).
They don't hate NFC. CurrenC is going to use NFC as well. They hate that they are being cut out of the personal data loop. Currently they track customers by account number. When you swipe your card they are looking up all the purchases you have made in the past and providing targeted coupons and offers. Bank sponsored NFC transactions happen with one time authorization codes. This weakens account relationship tracking as they only know the bank, not the account.
The US is not the only place on earth... NFC is already EVERYWHERE in Canada and I'm pretty sure that when it is rolled out here, it will be near universal.
You fail to see how intentionally and knowingly making extra work for a store clerk affects the store clerk? How do you think all of those unpaid items get put back on the shelf?
And no, changes like this DO NOT start at the ground level. If anything, all you will accomplish is pissing off the store clerk. Do you honestly think someone who works minimum wage is going to go to bat for you with their company after you made extra work for them, just because you act self-entitled and feel like purchasing a particular smartphone gives you some right to make someone else's life difficult?
Holy cow, I can't believe I'm actually having to explain how wrong this is to someone...
The logic in this is they want to push the CurrenC platform which they obviously have a vested interest in. Think BluRay/HD DVD. Ultimately I think Rite Aid will be on the wrong side of it but that's just my humble opinion.
Can I assume you didn't read the post (she)he replied to? If you did, you would have to agree "world class prick" is apropos. What happened to you in no way relates to what dneesley is suggesting. You were caught unaware of a policy. This ain't that. Who but an immature ass would do something like this:
Originally Posted by dneesley
Load up a cart at the offending (non-ApplePay) merchant and go to checkout.
When they say,
"Oh, we don't support ApplePay."
You say,
"Cancel the sale. I'll shop somewhere else."
An action like the one above comes from the mind of a child. An adult who disagrees would simply take their money elsewhere. Supporting Apple and Apple Pay is one thing. Being a douche is something different. I'm pretty sure Apple wouldn't want to be associated with actions like the above either.
I can't even use Apple Pay yet 
Non of my banks/CCs work with it. F-n stupid and makes me want to switch to others that will.
Non of my banks/CCs work with it. F-n stupid and makes me want to switch to others that will.I don't think people are upset because a given merchant doesn't have Apple Pay. Its because Rite Aid purposely turned off their NFC readers so people can't use it (although they have the capability).
That's a big difference.
In retail, which I have done for nearly 20 years. You do not do things that are potential PR bombs. This is one of those things. Apple Pay right now is in all the news. Both in the tech space as well as retail.
Rite Aid just set off a bomb in their own laps.
What they should've done was say when Apple Pay was being rumored was that they will evaluate it and "hope to participate in the future" or something along those lines.
Now it just looks like they are purposely rejecting certain transactions.
Silly
This is so stupid. This should be universal thing whether you use Apple Pay, Google Pay, or whatever NFC type of payment. This is suppose to make it easier for the customer to pay.
This is not Apple's fault as somebody mention in this thread. So frustration for consumers.
This is sort of like if MLB didn't accept VISA at all there baseball parks because they have a partnership with MasterCard.
This is not Apple's fault as somebody mention in this thread. So frustration for consumers.
This is sort of like if MLB didn't accept VISA at all there baseball parks because they have a partnership with MasterCard.
Never said anything about Apple Pay not being successful elsewhere. It probably will be. Just not in the US if MCX has anything to say about it.
Tell me how you feel about apple restricting NFC to apple pay and not letting app developers make use of it or lettting us use NFC to quick sync things like cameras or speakers. How about Apple restricting face time in the past to WiFi only or restricting OTA updates to WiFi.
In each of the 3 examples I've given, the hardware or infrastructure is there but Apple removed that option from customers. That there tells me all I need to know about Apple.
No credit cards are not US currency. Currency is what is printed by the US federal reserve. So cash and coin. And it is only illegal to refuse it for debts. Purchase transactions are not debts. My rent is a debt, my car loan is a debt. My cheeseburger or tampons, not a debt
No, no they didn't. They pissed off a small handful of uppity iPhone users. It's not even going to be a blip on their radar.
You think way too much of yourself. iPhone users do not rule the world. Calm down.
The problem here is not technological (besides the small glitch on BoA side), but a commercial issue. Those are often messier than tech issues and may or may not be resolved with time.
But Walgreens has a rewards system too. We went there Monday and used Apple Pay. i thought it was very convenient that the Walgreens Rewards card in the Passbook and my phone was already out to pay for my purchases.
Is it the same, or am I missing something on the rewards stuff?
I agree with you, I have no right to use Apple Pay anywhere at all. But that doesn't mean I have to think it's a good (or even fair) business decision for Rite Aid to disable it after we know it works.
At the bottom of my blog post that MR linked, I indicate that this is a quintessentially "first-world problem" (though FWPs are plenty valid), and that my life is just as good today as it always has been. I don't feel entitled to anything, but I do think businesses should try to avoid consumer-hostile decisions any time they can, and that is not what has happened with Rite Aid.
No. Think Blu-ray vs. a DVD encoded by your merchant, that has pop-up ads, tracking devices and loyalty programs built into it and forced ads that run for 30 minutes, before you can watch the film.
No, its not like BluRay vs. HD DVD at all.
I realise it's not a bug and I agree with everything you said. My point is Apple Pay didn't have enough time to be socialised, absorbed and understood within the retail industry. This decision is a reactionary one by Rite Aid and I'm sure they're not the only retailer in this position. I have no doubt that Rite Aid will eventually support Apple Pay, the user base of iPhone is just too large to ignore and whatever competition exists, it's never going to be as easy to use on the iPhone.
The argument I am making is, if Apple Pay had been announced 3-4 months earlier, it might have had enough time to gain traction and understanding before it's release. That's all.
EMVCo owns the trademark for the NFC payment logo and requires a license to include it on a terminal. What I wonder is if this makes a merchant using that hardware a sub-licensee and if so, does the act of selectively disabling support for certain 'brands' of EMV payments violate their terms of use for the mark.