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Rite Aid Disables Apple Pay Support After Initially Accepting Payments
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Why not support all payment systems
Why limit cutomers choice? If i want google pay i use that.. Apple then apple or C.... Whats the point of disabling a payment system.. Stupid!
Why limit cutomers choice? If i want google pay i use that.. Apple then apple or C.... Whats the point of disabling a payment system.. Stupid!
And I will. Fortunately, there's a Walgreens right across the street from my local Rite Aid. Buh-bye.
No, they should have released it years ago. Or somebody. NFC has been available for ages, but effectively, never used in the USA. I'm glad someone has stepped up to force at least some companies' hands in this manner. And it seems pretty secure, so Apple's version isn't bad.
Expecting perfection for every idiot that walks down the street from a brand new technology is silly. Your expectations are absurd. All of this is based on how people think. You want a robust relationship? Well, that is based on two companies getting executives together to talk, actual people. And people are jerks that don't get along very well.
The one argument that could work is that Japan and other countries have been using NFC for years, and theoretically US banks and companies (Apple, Google) could have done a better job copying them. But just imagine the internet angst over that!!
Buying a $600+ phone because of a feature that may or may not ever catch on is the epitome of foolishness.
No it's not. Ever flown recently? Most airlines do not accept cash for purchases on board such as drinks and snacks. Companies can accept whatever payment methods they want.
Even for paying off debt, there was a case where someone threw a bag with 2,000 pennies at someone whom he owed 20 dollars, and he got arrested for assault.
This is why I wish this stuff was more like USB - there was some sort of comity (sp?) that would say that one kind of file protocol is standard for NFC, either you can follow it or not.
Imagine if when credit cards first came out they had this garbage where certain types of them only worked with IBM or Sanyo cash registers because of different tech. This whole thing where only certain devices work is silly and just makes it all confusing for consumers.
In the end you still have to have a credit card in your wallet and then whats the point of having it in your phone?
What's so silly about this, is that Rite Aid will eventually be forced to take Apple Pay due to market and consumer pressures. And if you take a step back and consider how asinine it is to prevent people from giving you money you were otherwise completely capable of accepting, this goes to a whole new level of business-first thinking instead of customer-first.
Fight it all you want Rite Aid. See you back here after you've done yourself needless PR damage.
To be clear- they will accept a person paying in pennies or personal check. But if you use Apple Pay, no way. Think about that.
Fight it all you want Rite Aid. See you back here after you've done yourself needless PR damage.
To be clear- they will accept a person paying in pennies or personal check. But if you use Apple Pay, no way. Think about that.
Hmmm, what's that word I'm trying to come up with, oh yes, collusion. I think that was the same thing that got Apple into trouble. An NFC terminal is a brand-neutral POS, thus it shouldn't matter how the merchant wants to receive payment. That Rite Aid chose to refuse 'ApplePay' because a third company doesn't like it (is this true?) perhaps suggests a collusion amonsgts companies to control and prevent a service in favor of another that also uses the same NFC terminal. This should be interesting to watch how this will evolve. I hope what is happening is healthy competition.
It's been said before, but it bears repeating:
Why on earth, in today's competitive retail climate, would a retailer do something to prevent customers from spending money with them?
Especially if the net goal is to promote another payment system... which, as I recall, is not the industry that Rite Aid is in. Or, did I miss that Rite Aid is giving up on selling convenience items at 100% markup and now secretly plotting to become a new financial payment processor?
I haven't used Apple Pay, yet (installed it on my 6 last night), but there are so many choices for Drug/Convenience Stores in my area that avoiding Rite Aid will be easy.
Why on earth, in today's competitive retail climate, would a retailer do something to prevent customers from spending money with them?
Especially if the net goal is to promote another payment system... which, as I recall, is not the industry that Rite Aid is in. Or, did I miss that Rite Aid is giving up on selling convenience items at 100% markup and now secretly plotting to become a new financial payment processor?
I haven't used Apple Pay, yet (installed it on my 6 last night), but there are so many choices for Drug/Convenience Stores in my area that avoiding Rite Aid will be easy.
They should've waited until people that won't do business with them will magically change their minds? So in other words, apple shouldn't have done apple pay at all right? That's like saying "wait until best buy and walmart get on board and THEN release apple pay right". How? Its not a matter of negotiation with everybody. Best Buy and Walmart Refused to participate at all in this.
I'm so glad apple doesn't think like you, or every road block would be a reason to just give up on everything
This is very fishy. MerchantC started right around the keynote that showed Apple Pay.
It is run by an LLC company behind the mask of a marketing / advertising firm.
It says it accepts most smartphones..
If they are purposefully cutting out Apple Pay and thusly the iPhone I fear Google is behind this.
In any case their App from Apple will be removed asap I believe leaving only the Google Play store and android based smartphones.
It is run by an LLC company behind the mask of a marketing / advertising firm.
It says it accepts most smartphones..
If they are purposefully cutting out Apple Pay and thusly the iPhone I fear Google is behind this.
In any case their App from Apple will be removed asap I believe leaving only the Google Play store and android based smartphones.
I wondered the same thing. Target is also a merchant that works with merchant customer exchange, just for the record. They seem to have a pretty extensive list of partners to me.
http://www.mcx.com/
Even so, I have no confidence in this system. Where did it come from and why should I trust it?
I wonder what percentage of Rite Aid customers use Apple Pay? I have to admit, I am shocked by the number of people here who would stop shopping somewhere that they have shopped for years just because a merchant is somehow snubbing Apple, but this is MR, so it shouldn't be shocking.
Amex opted to share ALL transactions performed on the card with Apple Pay / your phone. So I presume that's what happened to him.
Some didn't - for instance my Cap One Venture only shows purchases I made using my phone.
It's been reported on here that some cards show only Apple Pay purchases in Passbook, while others show all purchases.
So unlike Apple Pay, they are storing users' sensitive financial information. And we have seen in the last weeks that sensitive financial information locked up in cloud vaults has a tendency to escape.
absolutely no issues at all, and it does not ask for a pin whole transaction takes seconds.
Why not? What does it have to do with the cashier's paycheck? You think they are on commission? Ridiculous.
I've had stores turn me down for using a credit card because of a too-small purchase twice in my life, both times I said forget it and walked out. They don't want my money, I'll go away. Simple. Why should I have to shop somewhere when I don't like the policies? That makes me a "world-class prick". Do you even know what "world-class" implies? Utterly ridiculous. The blood has literally drained from my face because of the idiotic implications in your post.
Haven't even tried Apple Pay, yet. Haven't even tried setting up my CU bankcard, I doubt it works, yet. S'pose I could try.
It depends on the form of the currency. For example there are many places that are "cash only" and don't accept cards at all. There are many places that accept cards but don't take American Express or Discover. There are places that don't take pre-paid gift cards. All of which is US currency that it's not illegal to deny.