The whole penny tactic is a gray area and a funny inconvenient way to pay off someone you are displeased with, especially thousands dollars. But yeah, the way it's delivered could cause an unrelated issue.
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Rite Aid Disables Apple Pay Support After Initially Accepting Payments
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The whole penny tactic is a gray area and a funny inconvenient way to pay off someone you are displeased with, especially thousands dollars. But yeah, the way it's delivered could cause an unrelated issue.
If you want to share your opinion, it's more effective to tell the manager than the cashier.
That's what I did when Rite Aid turned on a feature called KidCents on my frequent shopper card. Without my permission, or permission from anyone in my family, they started rounded up my purchases to the next dollar and donating that money to charity. It was a good cause but less-than-honest for them to spend my money (and gain themselves good publicity) without my knowledge. When I noticed it on a receipt and challenged them, they offered me a refund on my purchase but not the rounded up extra cents!
I've switched to shopping at the competitor around the corner, and Apple Pay acceptance is another reason I'll continue voting with my pocketbook. Neither of these is a life-and-death issue or a reason to go ballistic, just my 2 cents when it comes to consumer choice.
Curious, so the people who made a purchase from Rite Aid, right after they went home and since the purchase did not go through with Apple Pay does this mean their purchase is free? Rite Aid can not say over 1,000 customer stole items lol.
Good luck with the Rite Aid system.
Unlike Apple Pay the Rite Aid system stores your data.
Unlike Apple Pay the Rite Aid system stores your data.
I would say going to a business knowing that they don't accept Apple Pay, loading up a cart, going through the check out process and then proceeding to cancel the sale just to prove a point is quite douchey- not only to the clerk but also the poor saps waiting behind you. If that wasn't the suggestion, my apologies, but the wording kinda sounded like that behavior was being encouraged.
This is not true .
"Broad payment options: No-one likes to have their choices limited. So we are building in the freedom to pay using a variety of financial accounts, including personal checking accounts, merchant gift cards and select credit and debit accounts."
No, Apple didn't mess up a thing. RiteAid did. Bank of America did.
You should return your iPhone 6 and get an Android or whatever, cause Apple doesn't need a customer that **** talks about them over stuff that wasn't their issue. Next you'll be blaming them because Att decides to drop grandfathered unlimited data if you subsidize your iPhone purchase.
I think what I find most funny about this are some of the comments that claim they'll take their business to Walgreens.
Let's say, for example, a Walgreens is further from your location than Rite-Aid. Some people here would actually be willing to spend more money on gas just so they can use their phone to pay for purchases.
Let's say, for example, a Walgreens is further from your location than Rite-Aid. Some people here would actually be willing to spend more money on gas just so they can use their phone to pay for purchases.
Yep it sure does. And great, except when the banks or a merchant screw up their side. But that's not an Apple issue
So easy that you could do it with someone else's card.
I went to dinner at a very nice restaurant last spring with some friends. We had traveled to NYC to see some Broadway shows. After lunch we all put our cards on the table and split the ticket four ways (each of us paid about a hundred bucks--black truffles are expensive, you know). We each signed our ticket and put our cards back in our wallets.
Then we went to our shows. Three of us went to see Idina Menzel's musical IF/THEN. One went to see Les Miserables. After final bows of IF/THEN, two cast members came out to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. They had an auction for a cue card with some lyrics to the song "Let It Go", that was signed by Ms. Mendel and the song's writers. The winner of the auction also got to go backstage and meet the stars of the show.
I thought it would be a cool souvenir of my trip, and it's a good cause. I participated in the auction, and I ended up being the winner. I went backstage with two of my friends, and we visited with Anthony Rapp and other cast members until Ms. Mendel was ready to go. We took some pictures, and a representative from Broadway Cares took the credit card and swiped it. Then I signed it. A few minutes later, we were back on the street (with my prize, an enormous autographed cue card), and went to meet our other friend at a cafe.
Our friend enjoyed hearing about us meeting the cast, and she asked whether I had received a receipt for the donation for my taxes. I said I had the credit card receipt, and they were going to send me an official receipt by mail. I pulled out my wallet to check the receipt was still there, and that's when I noticed that the name on the receipt was hers, not mine. I had just charged a $2000 donation to charity on my friend's credit card! We had similar cards, and we had mixed them up at lunch.
It took several days to get the charges moved to my credit card account.
So, yeah, I know how easy it is to pull a card out of your wallet and pay with it.
I agree. I was just guessing that because others have said that this "CurrentC" is supported by ads.
Seriously?
People are that upset that they have to either swipe a credit card or use cash?
I guess maybe you could be mad in 5 years when no one is carrying credit cards and everyone uses NFC, but the technology (for Apple Pay) has been out for 4 days. This just seems insane to me.
People are that upset that they have to either swipe a credit card or use cash?
I guess maybe you could be mad in 5 years when no one is carrying credit cards and everyone uses NFC, but the technology (for Apple Pay) has been out for 4 days. This just seems insane to me.
pay is definitely introducing new selective pressure on my shopping choices. I cringe every time a story comes out where some merchant has had a data breach or skimming attack that resulted in my cc details leaking out. I'm covered from fraud by the banks, but it's one more thing to have to monitor. The one-time use cryptograms used in pay makes it my preferred payment choice now, and if a store can't/won't accept it, I'm going to prioritize them lower. I wouldn't go so far as to say I'll boycott anyone, but it will impact my decisions. I doubt I'm alone.
I realize that Rite Aid is probably under some kind of contract not to offer competing contactless payments, and that's why somebody at Rite Aid felt they had to turn off NFC or possibly face a lawsuit, but I still will not shop at Rite Aid until they fix this. They should realize that is not good PR to suddenly do something like that, especially without a press release informing everybody why they have to do that. Goodbye Rite Aid until they're back on board.
Its not a bug. It was probably action directed to Rite Aid by the consortium of retailers behind CurrentC. They had a meeting about Apple Pay threatening their lame attempt (not yet released) for mobile pay. So Rite Aid took unilateral action to defeat Apple Pay in order to show "support" for the consortium. This is not a bug and has nothing to do with Apple, Apple Pay or tokenization.
It is their right. I totally agree. But it is also the right of customers/potential customers to complain about their business decision. Dont like that Rite Aid doesnt accept Apple Pay or Google Wallet? Shop elsewhere until they accept it. I wholly approve of this. Rite Aid must face the consequences of their business decision. Nobody can or should be able to force them to accept either of these payment methods, including any government (through regulation). Its Rite Aids choice not to accept it and its the customers choice not to shop there as a result.
Please don't do this... iPhone users in general are already looked down on enough by society for being uppity and self-important. Doing this will just exacerbate it and make iPhone users look worse.
So you tried to use it three times and two of those you got a 'not supported' message. Must have if you know they turned it off.
That isn't an Apple issue. That is the merchant being a jerk. And it's not something for Apple to 'work out'. They can force a company to take their system anymore than Discover could force folks to take their cards.
I don't know if this has been mentioned in the comments or not, but I read somewhere (don't know if it's true) that stores that signed on to use MCX can't accept competing mobile payments. This could be why because apparently they blocked Google wallet too, someone on her mentioned.