Not federally mandated. If it were, I would think the consequences would be a lot stronger than "lose all fraud-related chargebacks with no recourse".
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Safeway Rolling Out Apple Pay This Month in United States
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Not federally mandated. If it were, I would think the consequences would be a lot stronger than "lose all fraud-related chargebacks with no recourse".
Most places I go to uses chip readers, and I’m from America. Tap to Pay is another story, but it’s gaining traction.
Pavilions is part of Vons, so yes.
It’s a long list. And technically, Albertsons is the parent company, though I still say Safeway, as most are more familiar with it as an umbrella.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarkets_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfti1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarkets_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfti1
Of the Safeway-affiliated stores, we have both Albertsons and Vons (and Vons Pavilions) in my neighborhood, though the Albertsons are closing. The Vons are generally more appealing, though there are individual exceptions.
They turned off their contactless payment option.
Yet people still shop there
Not you, but all the Americans who claim to be concerned with security, kill me. If they really cared, they'd be using Samsung Pay so that they could use tokenized payments even on old POS swipe terminals without NFC support.
It's an Apple fan site thing. They could just say "NFC payments", but then some readers wouldn't know that also meant Apple Pay.
They're just getting it, so yes, by default.
https://twitter.com/HarrisTeeter/status/913762769215934467
This probably means that Kroger will be supporting Apple Pay as they are on the Kroger system now.
This probably means that Kroger will be supporting Apple Pay as they are on the Kroger system now.
IMO, Target (and Home Depot, who got hacked a year later, losing something like thirteen millions more cards than Target did) are probably the two safest retailers to trust now-a-days in terms of data security.
They've been burned once and lost millions of dollars because of it. I don't see them allowing it to happen again.
Check this out:
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/emv-chip-credit-cards-required-law/
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It went very right for the corporate parent! The Safeway-Albertson merger was conditional on them selling stores where they competed with each other to another grocery chain. The sold the worst performing stores (generally Albertsons) to Haggens, a small Washington State based chain, which became so big it went bankrupt (cash flow problems, no doubt) and their stores closed. As a result the three closest grocery stores to our house are now empty shells, and Safeway/Albertsons increased their market share while only having to support far fewer stores.
And to be on topic, Haggens accepted Apple Pay and was the first grocery store around here to do so.
Been able to use Apple Pay at Safeway here in Canada for a year or so now. All cards except for American Distress that is.
Really loved our remodeled Haggen and loved the fact that they took ApplePay. We were quite disappointed when they closed.
I thought I heard since whole foods was bought by amazon they have lost or are going to lose Apple Pay, no?
I don't think they specified plans either way. There might be more of an emphasis on online ordering though.
Actually, per Wikipedia:
"On February 19, 2014, Safeway began to explore selling itself. On March 6, 2014 Cerberus Capital Management (which also owns rival grocery chain Albertsons) announced it would purchase Safeway for $9.4 billion in a deal expected to close in the 4th quarter of the year.[28]
In January 2015, Bellingham, Washington-headquartered grocery chain Haggen announced it would buy 146 Vons, Albertsons, and Pavilions stores across Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona as part of anti-monopoly requirements following the merger. Some of the major metropolitan areas affected were Los Angeles, Portland, Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego, Bakersfield, Seattle, and Las Vegas.:
So, Cerberus owns both Safeway & Albertson's. In the Sacramento area, the quality is quite good. Service could stand some improvement, but they have just gone on a major pricing reduction. If you watch their sales & coupons, you can get some good savings. Just got a 24 pack of their 16 oz. waters for 99¢. The Raley's/Bel Air chain here in this area is very overpriced.
To be fair the last time I was there was 2 years ago so maybe it has finally started to gain ground. Sad that it’s still one “generation” behind as it were though. Pretty much everywhere up here accepts tap unless they still have a very old system.
I’m in a major city in the USA, and chip readers are gaining ground, but still not everywhere. Contactless payment is the same. In fact, two of the major retailers here that had Apple Pay first still use swipe. So it’s truly a mixed bag.
I’m starting to see tap grow mostly mom and pop places because they got the new chip machines that have tap functionality built in.
The big retailers are just stubborn but that’s hopefully changing with Safeway, Albertsons etc coming on board with tap. Major hold outs left seems to be Walmart, Target, and Kroger.
Yeah! ApplePay worked for me today at the Safeway on El Camino in Belmont, CA!
Just used it at two Safeway’s here in AZ! Works as one would expect. Albertsons has it too now.
Just be careful as the screen mentions NOTHING about tapping. You just tap and it works anyway.
Just be careful as the screen mentions NOTHING about tapping. You just tap and it works anyway.
Albertsons has had it for a while. The big problem was that they're in the process of switching to Safeway's system, which didn't have contactless until now.
I verified Apple Pay is working at Randall’s in Austin yesterday. There were no labels or icons on the card reader indicating this. I just tried it and it worked!
There are “virtual” lights on the screen which is the standard PayPass lights indicating contactless works.