You would boycott a shop because they released an app treading on the toes of your beloved apple.. have you any idea how sad that is..
Would you tell someone in real life what you are doing.. I suspect not as they would look at you gone out...
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Walmart Announces Apple Pay Competitor 'Walmart Pay' for iOS
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Would you tell someone in real life what you are doing.. I suspect not as they would look at you gone out...
Thats valid argument.. But Personally I dont mind if store and bank know what I paid for
Home Depot makes it even more annoying by holding the terminals in metal brackets that surround the terminal and interfere with inserting the card, and angling the terminals so you can't see the card slot at the bottom. Walmart does the same thing come to think of it. The card slots do a lot more damage to the card than swiping.
Is the article "skewed" because it's a news item about the planned implementation of WalPay? If you're referring to the comments, that's somewhat different.
I don't see how the article implies anything. WalPay will be a "competitor" or "alternative" to ApplePay.
Speaking of competitors or alternatives, there are several alternatives to Apple themed sites that you're welcome to visit.
What's more worrisome is other retailers imitating Walmart. Publix is practically a monopoly in Florida (most of the regular grocery stores other than Walmart have left) and they're dragging their feet on turning on NFC. The stores all have new terminals but they won't turn on NFC and everybody I ask has no idea when they will.
Calm down and take your meds. You may have noticed that I said another reason?
Walmart is a nasty and depressing place to shop, and an unethical and hypocritical company.
But, they have specifically chosen to sidestep a great service that they could easily support, and that would not impact their bottom line in order to keep access to my personal information. So yes, that is enough to keep me from shopping there. When a company engages in blatant consumer unfriendly behavior I vote with my wallet.
Might make sense for Walmart.
Their customer base is more than just iOS users.
They need something compatible for Android too.
Based on this website, Walmart People
it just may be that most of their customers are not iOS users .
Their customer base is more than just iOS users.
They need something compatible for Android too.
Based on this website, Walmart People
it just may be that most of their customers are not iOS users
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Walmart today introduced its own mobile payments service called "Walmart Pay" built into its Walmart app on iOS and Android. The new Apple Pay competitor will roll out in select Walmart stores in the U.S. this month, followed by a nationwide launch within the first half of 2016.
Walmart Pay's QR code-based checkout process will involve opening the Walmart app, selecting Walmart Pay, activating the camera, scanning the code displayed at the register and waiting for the cashier to finish bagging your items. An electronic receipt will automatically be sent to the Walmart app.
The new payments solution will only work in Walmart stores and supports any major credit, debit, pre-paid or Walmart gift card. Walmart says that 22 million customers actively use its Walmart app each month, placing it among the top three retail apps in the App Store and Google Play.
Walmart is among a handful of retailers that have refused to support Apple Pay since its U.S. launch in October 2014. The retailer is instead one of over a dozen retailers committed to the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) consortium and its yet-to-launch rival payments service CurrentC.
Walmart's future plans to support Apple Pay or CurrentC remain undisclosed, but the company's senior vice president of services Daniel Eckert said Walmart Pay allows "for integration of other mobile wallets in the future."Walmart App is free on the App Store for iPhone and Apple Watch. [Direct Link]
Article Link: Walmart Announces Apple Pay Competitor 'Walmart Pay' for iOS
Absolutely miserable, now we need an app for every store, and it's a bad alternative to Apple Pay because it's a scannable QR code... It may as well be a piece of paper that you scan.
I thought it was because Home Depot won't allow you to use ApplePay even though they have the capability to accept it.
No - it's skewed because on no planet is WalPay a competitor to Apple Pay. You don't see how the article implies anything? Did you read the headline?
I visit a multitude sites. Only this one positioned WalPay as a competitor to its respective platform payment system.
Maybe it's you who should visit other tech sites to gain a more holistic picture?
You can also use Apple Pay with your old iPhone 5s through an Apple Watch. That's what I do.
HAHAHAHA since this is an APP...Apple could EASILY SHUT DOWN THIS APP...and say..."violation...blah blah"
I'm one of the 5% of the worlds population who have a nervous condition known as Essential Tremor. I doubt if I (or people with Parkinsons) could hold an IPhone steady enough to read the QR codes. I have no problem with contactless cards or Pay.
Do all these companies really think everyone wants a separate "blank Pay" for every store, bank and company they use? What is wrong with these people?
NOPE. Nope…nope. Not gonna do it. Just another reason to NOT shop at wally world. I don't trust them—not so much the security (although kinda) but that they won't harvest all of my data and be super creepy. Apple Pay is so much faster. Can I tap on my watch twice to pay with this service? No? I have to unlock my iPhone, find some app (probably buried in a folder or on another screen), open it—then what—put in a passcode or something, and then wave it around until those shoddy scanners actually work? Not interested. Do they really think this is the future of mobile payments? An app for every company in a series of folders on our phones? Oh wait, they want Wal-Mart to be the only company we shop at. Quantity over quality.
Hy-Vee might be a little more expensive, but we can order our groceries online and they deliver them to our house within 24 hours for free. How can Wal-Mart beat that? It saves us hours of shopping (essentially priceless), a trip to the store (which is a big headache around the holidays), and exposes us to less germs since we're not huddled together with a mass of other shoppers. After shopping at Wal-Mart for pretty much my whole life, I'm glad that we were financially blessed enough this year to justify shopping elsewhere. Especially since the one nearest our house is kinda gross and just plain dirty inside. *shudders*
Hy-Vee might be a little more expensive, but we can order our groceries online and they deliver them to our house within 24 hours for free. How can Wal-Mart beat that? It saves us hours of shopping (essentially priceless), a trip to the store (which is a big headache around the holidays), and exposes us to less germs since we're not huddled together with a mass of other shoppers. After shopping at Wal-Mart for pretty much my whole life, I'm glad that we were financially blessed enough this year to justify shopping elsewhere. Especially since the one nearest our house is kinda gross and just plain dirty inside. *shudders*
It's interesting that their argument is that Apple Pay doesn't work with all phones so they had to do their own app. They could have accepted Android Pay too and gotten 99% of the smartphone market, but the fact they they didn't shows their argument to be disingenuous.