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Rite Aid Disables Apple Pay Support After Initially Accepting Payments
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Maybe you could enlighten us a little more on what you're not surprised about and what exactly you've been skeptical of from the beginning?
I wonder if the game Monopoly will someday be updated to allow NFC payments instead of paper money? Or maybe it already has been and I'm just out of touch.
Exactly. Get a bunch of friends with iPhone 6's and line up with full shopping cars. Let the cashier scan all the items and when they say they don't accept Apple Pay, tell them you're going to Walgreens and walk away. That'll make an impact when all your friends waiting in line do the same thing.
They have not built a coalition with just about every major competitor to ONLY accept one mobile payment system and to REQUIRE that any member not be part of any other mobile payment system as a condition of being a member of their system. The things that you mention are not of the same type.
Now please understand I still am not convinced that this has happened. But there are many here who are. I have just asked them to show proof that it has. Because if so, it is bone headedly stupid. A first year corporate law student could see where that would lead to. But it could be true. These guys can't be too smart- they want to take on the banks!
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I'm sure a lot of people were scared to use credit cards when they first came out and said it would never work.
I'm sure a lot of people were skeptical of the magnetic strip when it came out.
It's progress, in a direction of safety and privacy. It'll eventually be the standard.
I'm sure a lot of people were skeptical of the magnetic strip when it came out.
It's progress, in a direction of safety and privacy. It'll eventually be the standard.
Oh, boo hoo about Apple Pay being denied. I can't imagine the amount of tolerance it takes to stand before those waving phones around and trying more than once for their fingerprint to properly scan. Credit cards are immediate, as is cash. And the lines, especially in the city, get long.
It's getting hard to stomach clueless comments.
Apple does not charge the merchant a fee.
Seriously, where do people get this stuff?
The fact of the matter is Rite Aid I know for a fact accepts at the very least Visa and Mastercard and you are still in most cases, except the people who are using American Express, using Visa and Mastercard. They are just blocking NFC from Apple devices because they want you to use a service that no one is going to want to use nor is even available for use yet. It's like blocking payments from Bank of America (who uses mastercard) but accepting payments from USAA (who also uses mastercard).
Hmmm..."Grift" is not a commonly used word, but it states well how you feel about Apple making lots of money in a fairly passive way. I would assume you do not own any Apple stock. I do, and I'm glad to see Apple making lots of money. Have a nice day.
Credit cards are immediate? Never stood in line while the cashier tries over and over to swipe your CC because the strip might be a bit worn? Or cash? So making change is immediate for all cashiers? Especially when they run out of ones, or tens or twenties or quarters and are banging incessantly on the draw to get the roll to break? I'm sorry but your comment makes you appear bent on finding fault with any technological advancement.
Edit: For some reason the card readers at Lowe's will never read my AMEX. It works everywhere else and I use it a lot. Every single time I go there they swipe it several times and then they have to key the whole number in manually (I'd stop going there if Home Depot always had what I wanted). Yeah, waving a phone at an NFC terminal is just too much.
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They have not built a coalition with just about every major competitor to ONLY accept one mobile payment system and to REQUIRE that any member not be part of any other mobile payment system as a condition of being a member of their system. The things that you mention are not of the same type.
Now please understand I still am not convinced that this has happened. But there are many here who are. I have just asked them to show proof that it has. Because if so, it is bone headedly stupid. A first year corporate law student could see where that would lead to. But it could be true. These guys can't be too smart- they want to take on the banks!
Sorry man, no basis for a lawsuit.
It takes about as long to become an expert at using Apple Pay as it does to learn how to swipe a credit card. Boo hoo if it's too hard for you to learn, but most will pick it up quickly.
This and the fact that Target has
pay working in it's app and was called out for being the launch partner in the keynote, makes me not want to believe that MCX requires that you not support any other mobile pay system, even if some press think so.----------
Not one for me. But one for the rest of the mobile payments industry or for the US DOJ under the Sherman anti trust statutes.
From what I understand, this MCX system yes is a barcode, but it does use tokenization. It's probably somewhat secure, but doesn't look nearly as easy to use as Apple Pay. You would still have to open an app on the phone and scan the barcode. Doesn't sound like it would catch on. Also, it sounds like they only want to do store branded cards (which might also include store-branded MC/Visa, like the current Walmart Mastercard, but that's not for certain). In that case bank-branded MC/Visa would not be accepted for contactless at these places, which also is not good.
And then there's also the fact that the rest of the world has already gone NFC, not MCX. And that would be unlikely to change. I think Apple made the right bet here, and we will see NFC eventually win, although we may see one or both systems in place at some retailers for a while.
And then there's also the fact that the rest of the world has already gone NFC, not MCX. And that would be unlikely to change. I think Apple made the right bet here, and we will see NFC eventually win, although we may see one or both systems in place at some retailers for a while.
Right now solutions like Apple Pay and Google wallet are more secure than swiping my card and using my pin.
Most banks are not currently offering Chip and Pin solutions in the USA. People will absolutely shop elsewhere to be better protected from retailers being hacked and their credit and debit card information being let loose into the wild.
Right now as it stands, you are at the mercy of the retailers IT department, specifically their security analysts ability to keep their servers from being hacked.
Now this is fact, I've been behind and watched this happen countless times!
I have been the one holding up the line, watching cashiers trying to swipe my card over and over countless times!
Apple Pay will just be another form of payment that will be safe and fast, I'm all in!
Sounds to me like you and your friends need something better to do with your free time than to harass cashiers in drug stores.
Maybe you should consider donating some of that free time to a soup kitchen.