Not for that user- he said last month that he "ditched his iPhone for Android 2 years ago."
So now he's just a troll.
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Rite Aid Reverses Course, Will Accept Apple Pay Starting August 15
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So now he's just a troll.
Agree and you would think that they would be one of the first as progressive of a company as they are. But I'd bet loyalty is important to them and iOS 9 adds that, so maybe soon.
In most cases I would agree that it is not good form to bypass a store where you would normally shop just because they don't accept Apple Pay. But in the case of Rite-Aid and CVS they both disabled a technology that they had been supporting specifically when Apple Pay became available. It was obvious that this was part of the MCX debacle, and as someone who is quite adamant about not supporting a technology that is invasive, inconvenient, less secure and less customer friendly, and is only being foisted on the consumer because it serves the non-primary business of the merchant (i.e. getting my information to market to me) I find it totally appropriate for someone to draw a line in the sand and make the merchant pay for the transgression.
There is no hacking Apple Pay until we get a proof of concept that one can. Give it about 6 months.
The nuclear hacker society is already working on it, so are the Russian brainiacs, who will then sell the antidote apps.
HEHE yeah, I'm sure everything they're doing is checked, re-checked, and checked again, hehe.
Wow... received a lot of hate for my comment. I'll own it though as I find a lot of "post-steve" apple products half a$$ed in terms of innovation and "leading the industry" like it onced did.
And for the record... I'm not an Apple hater. I just can't stand Tim Cook. And so by association, anything he was in charge of releasing makes me want to vommit. If i had to say I hate an apple product, id say Apple pay. But it's not limited to Apple Pay... its more NFC in general. You can add google wallet, current-c, samsung-pay, etc... to that list.
I find it completely useless, slower then swiping a card, and 100X slower then just wiping out cash.
Not to mention, anytime you use any sort of card/nfc/cashless service, the business has to pay a chunk to the processor which 9 times out of 10 gets passed on to the consumer. We are essentially causing ourselves to pay more because people want to the ability to pay with a phone.
And for the record... I'm not an Apple hater. I just can't stand Tim Cook. And so by association, anything he was in charge of releasing makes me want to vommit. If i had to say I hate an apple product, id say Apple pay. But it's not limited to Apple Pay... its more NFC in general. You can add google wallet, current-c, samsung-pay, etc... to that list.
I find it completely useless, slower then swiping a card, and 100X slower then just wiping out cash.
Not to mention, anytime you use any sort of card/nfc/cashless service, the business has to pay a chunk to the processor which 9 times out of 10 gets passed on to the consumer. We are essentially causing ourselves to pay more because people want to the ability to pay with a phone.
Not likely! Reading this forum, you'd think everybody who can uses Apple Pay when it is available. That is not the case. Out of my group of friends and acquaintances (about a dozen) with iPhone 6 or 6 +, I am the only one who use apple pay. Some people - like my wife - find it too complicated (I even set it up for her), Others don't trust it, or don't bother with it since "swiping a card works just fine".
Therefore, I think that the number of people who switch stores because of ApplePay is very small.
I don't even know if i have HALF a brain cell anymore. Jesus. You get so used to seeing people on the internet say such stupid inflammatory crap just as a joke that when you see it for real, it's hard to believe someone could say something like that. Like seeing a friend on facebook rant about vaccinations giving kids autism or how Obama is worse than Hitler. It's like...you can't be serious right?
Let's just call this what it is. The day i lost my very last brain cell. I'm now...Donald Trump
In my experience, I've found ApplePay to be a very quick way to pay. I believe if you had your iphone in your left pocket, and your credit card in the right pocket, and they had a race it would most likely be a tie speed wise. However, I very rarely just carry my credit card around in my pocket. It's always in my wallet, which I need to remove, open and dig out my card before swiping. I do keep my iphone in my left pocket, nicely handy. So, in reality I would say ApplePay would win the race.
So, this is the same one that used it own.
And now they come crawling back to use Apple Pay, (probably because they realised how good is actual was over MCX.)
I put this in the "i told ya so." basket..
I like these companies that go out at a 90 degree bend, but then only to come back to Apple pay where they started from and now get on-board./or rather stay on board, but that's anyone's guess.
And now they come crawling back to use Apple Pay, (probably because they realised how good is actual was over MCX.)
I put this in the "i told ya so." basket..
I like these companies that go out at a 90 degree bend, but then only to come back to Apple pay where they started from and now get on-board./or rather stay on board, but that's anyone's guess.
I agree completely. Of my fellow nerd-friends, I am one of a very few that seek out ApplePay enabled stores. I bought my wife a 6 just so she could use ApplePay at our local grocery store. We have not even set it up yet because she doesn't see the point.
I seriously doubt there was a large number of people who switched their shopping places just due to ApplePay. I would believe that list of people would be limited to a subset of people who visit this website.
I really do hope CVS will follow suit, but then they seem to only care about data mining my credit card number to send me targeted weekly deals, so I'm not holding my breath.
Yesterday I went to CVS for the first time in about a year to get a prescription filled (I recently moved and Walgreens is no longer a convenient alternative). This CVS had apparently just installed brand new VeriSign payment terminals with both NFC pads and the chip&pin card reader slot.
The pharmacist was somewhat chatty/friendly and there wasn't a line, so I first tried ApplePay with my watch since the NFC lights were actually lit up and I knew the MCX deal was ending this month, but that greeted with a big "No beuno". I thought "fair enough" and then tried to insert my card into the chip slot, and CVS's system refused to accept the chip reader as well. The pharmacist said they they can only accept card swipes, but he mentioned that he had seen someone use Apple Pay at Trader Joe's recently and was impressed with how quick it was, and didn't know why it wouldn't work on their system. So yeah... yay for CVS having the technology but refusing to provide secure transactions to customers.
Yesterday I went to CVS for the first time in about a year to get a prescription filled (I recently moved and Walgreens is no longer a convenient alternative). This CVS had apparently just installed brand new VeriSign payment terminals with both NFC pads and the chip&pin card reader slot.
The pharmacist was somewhat chatty/friendly and there wasn't a line, so I first tried ApplePay with my watch since the NFC lights were actually lit up and I knew the MCX deal was ending this month, but that greeted with a big "No beuno". I thought "fair enough" and then tried to insert my card into the chip slot, and CVS's system refused to accept the chip reader as well. The pharmacist said they they can only accept card swipes, but he mentioned that he had seen someone use Apple Pay at Trader Joe's recently and was impressed with how quick it was, and didn't know why it wouldn't work on their system. So yeah... yay for CVS having the technology but refusing to provide secure transactions to customers.
I pretty much stopped shopping Target after their meltdown. If I needed anything, if it was on sale, I paid cash. Plus like CVS, it seems their stores are getting kinda shabby and not very well maintained.
Finally!! I go to Rite Aid all the time and I constantly ask when they will be turning on mobile payments again. I'll be using Apple Pay at Rite Aid this weekend for sure.
As much as I'd like to see Walmart cave in and finally end this (if Walmart started taking Apple Pay before CurrentC launched it would probably be the final nail in the coffin)... They are the one force on other side of the Apple Pay fence that has the means and attitude to just keep chugging along without it (and not lose a single wink of sleep over it).
I certainly use ApplePay when I can. I also don't buy things (except my prescriptions) at Rite Aid. I do go out of my way to go to a store that supports ApplePay.
I do find it interesting that some stores are not set up conveniently for using ApplePay. Subway sucks, Jamba Juice excels.
I think the biggest decline in CVS store quality I noticed was after the shift towards self-checkout. They tend to only have 1 or 2 people working at a maximum, and so things aren't really maintained, and it's near impossible to get assistance if you need help with something in the store.
If everyone became cash only tomorrow you'd probably find that prices aren't much lower, if any even bother cutting them. Case in point: a few years ago the government capped the amount charged to run debit cards to 0.05% + ~20c (I forget the exact amount) and the only thing that really changed was the elimination of some debit card rewards. Store prices didn't drop at all because stores pocketed the difference.
I understand that some people have those feelings about Apple Pay if they haven't used it before, but its simply not true. Paying with apple pay is 2 button presses on my watch and a tap up to the reader and I'm ready to go. When paying with cash you count out the bills you need, hand it over, wait for change, and put the change away. It's quicker than a card too, and the biggest benefit is that its so much more secure.
Agreed. Not a chance a store will pass payment processing savings on to the customers. There are only few gas stations around here that have "cash only" and "credit" prices; usually independently owned/operated ones. Their "cash only" prices are still higher than other gas station's "all in one" price.
I can't remember going to grocery store to find the price of milk, meat, or greens has gone down since my last visit.
You can't base it on just the users who use Apple pay. I don't use ApplePay (GogglePay, etc.) and I stopped going to Rite Aid after their decision. A company that values data mining above customer service, does not deserve my business.
