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Rite Aid Reverses Course, Will Accept Apple Pay Starting August 15

igorsky said:
Customer loyalty depends on a store implementing payment systems that consumers want to use, not systems that the stores want you to use.
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Customer loyalty depends on how the store treats you as a customer, the products/services they offer and the cost of those products and services. I just find it a little weird that someone equates customer loyalty to whether or not they can use a niche payment system or not.
 
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Derekuda said:
I find it completely useless, slower then swiping a card, and 100X slower then just wiping out cash.
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I could not disagree more, infact sometimes i have to look twice as paying with Apple Pay is so quick i don't actually believe i've paid sometimes. What could be quicker than raising your wrist, double pressing the side button and putting near the reader? Faster than inserting card and entering pin? YES, faster than handing over cash, YES.
 
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UnionVGF said:
Customer loyalty depends on how the store treats you as a customer, the products/services they offer and the cost of those products and services. I just find it a little weird that someone equates customer loyalty to whether or not they can use a niche payment system or not.
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I don't understand either, I guess prices and how they treat you no longer matters...the ones who say, "well they don't accept my apple pay so i'm going to someone who does", this is just pure apple fanboy...pretty childish in my opinion
 
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Derekuda said:
Can we all please just agree that Apple Pay is a total failure just like the new macbook air, apple watch, apple music.... Pretty much everything new created/announced under Tim Cooks awful management. I can't wait until he is canned.
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No, we can't. All the things you mentioned are good; they might have some issue, but nothing too problematic
 
JackANSI said:
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.
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Around here it's the Chevrons that tend to have the separate card/cash prices. And of course, Arco with their 35c surcharge for debit cards (which I'm still not sure how they can get away with that since surcharges are still not allowed at all for debit).

pentrix2 said:
in other news, gas stations are accepting cash
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If you pay inside, they do.
 
rdlink said:
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.
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Good points. If CVS and Walgreens are basically close to each other I of course would go Walgreens. I wouldn't go out of my way to find apple pay basically.
 
igorsky said:
Customer loyalty depends on a store implementing payment systems that consumers want to use, not systems that the stores want you to use.
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I was a customer of Walgreens before and after Pay. I do use it each time I'm there, but just the fact that they have it doesn't make me want to shop there more than before. Some people here deciding to ditch a store due to lack of implementing Pay are just being ridiculous. It's not worth wasting a dime's worth more of gas just to drive to a store that offers it. Gimme a break. :rolleyes:
 
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Derekuda said:
I find it completely useless, slower then swiping a card, and 100X slower then just wiping out cash.
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Sounds like you have never used Apple Pay, ever. If you did you'd know it's much faster than swiping a card, and about 100x faster than digging out cash from your wallet and then counting it.
 
HenryDJP said:
I was a customer of Walgreens before and after Pay. I do use it each time I'm there, but just the fact that they have it doesn't make me want to shop there more than before. Some people here deciding to ditch a store due to lack of implementing Pay are just being ridiculous. It's not worth wasting a dime's worth more of gas just to drive to a store that offers it. Gimme a break. :rolleyes:
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Awesome, thanks for sharing your personal preferences.
 
Derekuda said:
Can we all please just agree that Apple Pay is a total failure just like the new macbook air, apple watch, apple music.... Pretty much everything new created/announced under Tim Cooks awful management. I can't wait until he is canned.
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Don't know why you'd continue to follow a company you abhor that much. Deuces.
 
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penajmz said:
Haha !!

It took them long enough. They lost a lot of business from me, I drive a little bit further to Walgreens because of their stupid decision of not accepting Apple Pay.
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The time saved by using Apple Pay vs credit card is more than wiped out by the extra drive. How is that making your busy life easier?
 
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penajmz said:
Haha !!

It took them long enough. They lost a lot of business from me, I drive a little bit further to Walgreens because of their stupid decision of not accepting Apple Pay.
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You don't carry at least one physical card just because of Apple Pay? That seems silly, not all stores or services (gas stations and towing companies) accept Apple Pay. There may be an emergency down the road and you may just screw yourself by not having a physical credit card or cash on hand.

Or was it some silly "screw the man" statement you were making because they wouldn't accept Apple Pay? Spend extra gas money to use Apple Pay to purchase the same product that was probably the same price (since they are usually competitive and have the same specials going)... Yea you're the smart one.
 
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pentrix2 said:
I don't understand either, I guess prices and how they treat you no longer matters...the ones who say, "well they don't accept my apple pay so i'm going to someone who does", this is just pure apple fanboy...pretty childish in my opinion
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It's called voting with your dollar. Certain stores want to force you to use a far worse system that provides little benefit, but allows them to track your data? No thanks, I'd rather use the secure, contactless system of Apple Pay where you don't ever even have to know my name.
 
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WordsmithMR said:
You don't carry at least one physical card just because of Apple Pay? That seems silly, not all stores or services (gas stations and towing companies) accept Apple Pay. There may be an emergency down the road and you may just screw yourself by not having a physical credit card or cash on hand.

Or was it some silly "screw the man" statement you were making because they wouldn't accept Apple Pay? Spend extra gas money to use Apple Pay to purchase the same product that was probably the same price (since they are usually competitive and have the same specials going)... Yea you're the smart one.
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Agreed, and I'll take it one further than that. I've chosen to go to select stores at times only to find out that the store I decided to ignore had a sale on the item I wanted and the store I chose to go to had it at full price. But I guess some of the elitist people here that are in dire need to use Pay would rather pay more even if they knew the other store that didn't offer Pay had it cheaper.
 
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