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Last month: Apple Pay accepted in subway
Today: Apple Pay accepted in subway

The only difference is now you can use a non-apple-provided computer kiosk to order instead of talking to a "sandwich artist."

If subway gets new cash registers that still support Apple Pay is that also big Apple news?
It completely relates to Apple.

Subway is partnered with Apple. Developments in subway affect Apple revenue through contracts and business popularity of Apple products. This in turn would affect stock prices and consumer/investor interest in the company, which in turn affects Apple and then eventually the macs. Back to macrumors.

You can disagree. But you'd be wrong so save your time and go argue about falsities elsewhere.
 
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We had them in US mCdonalds for a while. The only complaint is the chip reader is really really low to the ground so I have to slouch to insert my card. Well I guess I could Apple Pay there.

That's interespeting if they tried them but took them out. I've heard contactless payment isn't as ubiquitous in US as it is in Australia though.

Low to the ground so their target market (children) can reach! :p Probably also so they're wheelchair accessible.

I'm 6'2 and I hate it when hand wash basins are too low! PT ticket machines are usually pretty bad as well.
 
That's interespeting if they tried them but took them out. I've heard contactless payment isn't as ubiquitous in US as it is in Australia though.

Low to the ground so their target market (children) can reach! :p

I'm 6'2 and I hate it when hand wash basins are too low!
Oh no, we still have them. With the obnoxiously low credit card readers. New ATMs here are obnoxiously low too! And sinks in restrooms. All in the name of being more accessible which is fine...but us tall people have to slouch badly!

Contactless payment is everywhere but our regular cards only have a chip with no PayPass.
You could use Apple Pay though with those PayPass terminals that are everywhere and even popping up on public transportation in LA, CHICAGO, Portland, etc.
 
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Saw these monstrosities at a McD in Ontario the other day. They only had ONE actual cash register at the counter.
They don't even take Apple Pay anymore.
I noticed the last few times I stopped to get a drink that the readers don't accept Apple Pay anymore.
 

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Saw these monstrosities at a McD in Ontario the other day. They only had ONE actual cash register at the counter.
They don't even take Apple Pay anymore.
I noticed the last few times I stopped to get a drink that the readers don't accept Apple Pay anymore.
In the US a they still take Apple Pay.
 
This doesn't surprise me. The cashier position has been eliminated at many stores for the "associate" position that is basically a stock position but they have to run over to the register when a customer needs to check out. Now subway will just have the workers focusing on making the food instead of taking orders.
 
This was in the US... Ontario, California.
The two McD's near my house here in Phoenix don't take Apple Pay anymore either.
It stopped working when they switched to the new chip readers.
You have to have them press card first. If on a kiosk press card first. The new chip readers take Apple Pay just fine.
 
You have to have them press card first. If on a kiosk press card first. The new chip readers take Apple Pay just fine.
Very backwards setup since they don't have to press card to use an actual card. Just insert it and it works.
And there are no markings indicating they accept NFC based payments. The old readers were very clear and no one had to press anything to make it work... it just worked.

I'm sure they've lost a lot of Apple Pay transactions due to this new setup.
 
Very backwards setup since they don't have to press card to use an actual card. Just insert it and it works.
And there are no markings indicating they accept NFC based payments. The old readers were very clear and no one had to press anything to make it work... it just worked.

I'm sure they've lost a lot of Apple Pay transactions due to this new setup.

They're just optimizing for the most common use case. Which frankly, is inserting a card. NFC payments really aren't used all that much (and possibly not even demanded by all that many people outside of MR and similar websites) in the US.
 
Retail/cashier is only the most common job in the country. Surely this isn't something we should be concerned about at all.

That job is going away as fast as businesses can make it happen - and they are all working hard to make it so. It starts in smaller forms, like kiosks and online ordering. The end goal is what Amazon prototyped in Seattle. A store with no cashiers at all where the computers keep track of what you buy and charge it to your card on the way out.

Job shifts like this are a natural evolution. The difference lately is that technological advancements have accelerated the shifts. In the past, you could probably expect to be able to do one kind of job in a lifetime, with perhaps your children having to do something else. That gave people time to prepare and learn the required skills for the new, upcoming roles. Now it is more likely that you'll be doing something completely different by the time you retire, with little or no time to adjust.
 
Retail/cashier is only the most common job in the country. Surely this isn't something we should be concerned about at all.

That job is going away as fast as businesses can make it happen - and they are all working hard to make it so. It starts in smaller forms, like kiosks and online ordering. The end goal is what Amazon prototyped in Seattle. A store with no cashiers at all where the computers keep track of what you buy and charge it to your card on the way out.

Job shifts like this are a natural evolution. The difference lately is that technological advancements have accelerated the shifts. In the past, you could probably expect to be able to do one kind of job in a lifetime, with perhaps your children having to do something else. That gave people time to prepare and learn the required skills for the new, upcoming roles. Now it is more likely that you'll be doing something completely different by the time you retire, with little or no time to adjust.
 
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I just want to see them prepare my sandwich, it’s not really the most sanitary conditions back there.
Oh, man! I had a sandwich artist pause mid-"masterpiece" to check his phone. Did he change his gloves? Nope. Of course, I was too chicken to say anything. No harm done yet, but it's still pretty gross.
 
It completely relates to Apple.

Subway is partnered with Apple. Developments in subway affect Apple revenue through contracts and business popularity of Apple products. This in turn would affect stock prices and consumer/investor interest in the company, which in turn affects Apple and then eventually the macs. Back to macrumors.

You can disagree. But you'd be wrong so save your time and go argue about falsities elsewhere.

I see nothing in the article or news about Apple "partnering" with subway. To the extent the partnership is "subway supports Apple Pay" that is not news - subway has supported Apple Pay for a year. The only new thing is the use of kiosks. Apple doesn't make the kiosks. Apple doesn't sell the kiosks. The kiosks do not appear to run iOS or macOS. Where's the NEW information relating to apple?
 
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Overpriced for an under-filled sandwich. I quit going there when a sandwich maker started counting the olive slices she was putting on.
I used to work for a convience store chain and we had Subways in our truck stops. Profit margin is really high. Doctors Associates who owns Subway bills the franchises and controls everything.
 
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What is a wish sandwich?

That's when you have two pieces of bread and you WISH you had some meat.
Subway charges about 7 dollars now for the foot long. But it has meat sliced so thin one can almost see through it.
On the rare occasion I go there I only get the 6 inch with double meat.
 
Why has it taken so long for this to happen? I remember ordering a build-to-order sandwich through a kiosk from a Wawa in Pennsylvania about 10 years ago.
 
Pretty cool to see, regardless of the "implications". I'm curious how this is going to be displayed to the sandwich artists so they can get the sammiches correct.
Presumably the same way that online orders happen now (printed slip that "follows" the sub as they make it).
 
Also, the Subway's around here are mostly staffed by people that are not doing a good job in general. I have not been to one in nearly a year. The quality was not there. Can't speak for all Subway's, just the few near me.

Not just your area.
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Now just have a robot that puts ingredients on the rolls and the only thing you'll need people for anymore is stocking cleaning.

Not that those are particularly difficult jobs for robots, just I think existing stores will require more of a redesign for robots to perform those tasks.

Based on their inability to deal with customers I would assume they are already robots.
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Not sure why this is "apple" news. Subway already supports Apple Pay. Been using it there for months. At least around here they do. Take away the Apple Pay and this story is "mediocre sandwich chain does stuff unrelated to apple."

Mediocre? You soundlike a Subway Fanboi.
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I just want to see them prepare my sandwich, it’s not really the most sanitary conditions back there.

They arn't sanitary when you watch them. "Hi, I don't eat meat, so can I just have a vegi?" Watch them start making it.... "Hi, um, would you mind changing your gloves please before you make my food? You just handled raw chicken..." They look at me weird... "Hi, would you at least mind chaning your gloves because you just touched your face and now your touching food?"

OMG, no. Ew.
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Not to mention the fact that when I ask for cucumber on my foot long sandwich, at least I'm there to ask for more as they try to put only one or two on.

Try explaining that they are supposed to tessellate your cheese.
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The subway I used to go to for lunch would charge you extra if you asked for more after they only put two on the sandwich. I stopped going to subway.

I have two subways within a mile of each other here. One charges extra for cheese on a vegi (which is supposed to come with two cheeses). The other charges less for a vegi and if you want the normal amount of cheese you pay the same as if you got meat. Asking for more vegi however is a threat of terror at both.
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I wouldn't give them that much credit. The Subways around me are now using scales to make sure they don't give you too much meat. I can understand if they wanted to ensure putting a minimum amount of meat on, but I see them taking off what amounts to a few grams of meat from my order.

This place is 100% cost driven anymore. I am sure Robot Sandwich Artists are already in the works. If not just vending machines to eliminate store fronts, too.

Where do they put the meat they removed from your sandwhich? On the next persons sandwhich? What if it touched another item the next person is alergic to? Once food is used it shouldn't go back into general distribution...
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I like Subway--one of my favorites, the ones I have gone to have been nice friendly and clean, and I like the sandwich !

Where are you??? How is this not national news? Every Subway I have been to has been dirty, rude, and ... oh my... you got me! LOL Good job!
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What is a wish sandwich?

That's when you have two pieces of bread and you WISH you had some meat.
Subway charges about 7 dollars now for the foot long. But it has meat sliced so thin one can almost see through it.
On the rare occasion I go there I only get the 6 inch with double meat.

So this one time I went and ordered someone a turkey sandwhich. I was happy because the ham and turkey was the $5 footlong. I was like I want the Ham and Turkey, but no Ham. They made the sandwhich and when I got to the end they charged my $9. I was like... um... whay? Why? It's $5. They said it was because I didn't get ham. I told them fine, give me Ham in on the side and throw it out. They told me they wouldn't give me the $5 price unless I had them put the Ham on the sandwhich. I was like, the person eating this can't have Ham... pretty sure their religion is pretty clear about it. They didn't care. If the ham didn't touch everything than it wasn't a ham and turkey, and they had to charge full price.

I called my friend and they told me to leave. So I left the already made sandwhich at the store and got them something else somewhere else.
 
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