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Walmart Announces Apple Pay Competitor 'Walmart Pay' for iOS
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I know, I used to work there...and they don't treat the employees well...but they're so damn big now they have become and institution. WE NEED THEM, low income America can't afford to shop elsewhere, at least not all the time.
Since Walmart SELLS iPhones.. pretty sure those that shop there can afford them. What a silly thing to suggest.
Since the "directive" start date isn't until 2017, not sure you can say they're ignoring this. Since my phone arrives with this proprietary cable not sure this is quite the same.
Actually where I live, we've been using the chip for several years and it does have a way that you reminds you of your card. You can't complete the sale until you remove your card. That is once you type in your pin and the sale goes through the register won't open and you won't get a receipt until you take the card out. The cashier can't go to the next customer until this is done. As for all those questions, I've only gotten them at Walmart and Home Depot. I really like tapping, but it has it's limits on how much you can spend each time.
It's not even THAT complicated.
All I have to do here is hold the phone up to the terminal with my thumb on the home button at some point after the first item has been scanned by the clerk. Not a single button is even pushed.
Well, considering I did the EXACT same thing at the Apple Store two days ago, it's a bit of an eye roll. Wanted to buy two things, but didn't want to wait for a res shirt to become available to conduct the transaction, so I used the Apple Store app to scan the bar codes of the items with my phone and then pay for them with Apple Pay. Obviously, Apple implements the concept much better.
Yep. Amex contacted me about charges they had already reversed and just wanted to confirm I didn't make them. Great service.
I am in Canada so only Amex works and I only have one Amex card. It works fine at like half the places I have used it at
All you did was describe how a company leveraged their size in order to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Apple does the same exact thing when it comes to negotiating with their supplies who provide chips. The more you order the more leverage you have and the more ability you have to win at the negotiating table. It's just smart business.
If you hate Walmart for doing this, then you are a hypocrite for being an Apple fan.
Hard-nosed negotiations is not a reason to hate Walmart. But there are plenty more. Such as the fact that they are always 120 days out on paying invoices. They do this to float their vendors' money, and make interest. And they do it because they know that companies like UPS (who I personally know they do it to) will not cancel their account. That's despicable and unethical behavior, and it's only one example of the way they operate.
that's a common practice that is not unique to Walmart. Plenty of companies do that, perhaps Apple as well.
On the contrary, the war is on merchant fees. Walmart has said from the beginning that fundamentally the idea was to get rid of the middleman between them and their customer's money. Walmart wants those payments to be EFT, as that costs them substantially less than credit/debit cards.
Cash will always be the most welcomed option because 2% of it doesn't disappear off the top in transaction fees.
Give over man, every other oems have abided by the rules for years now.. bar one, which you choose to buy products from.. some would say slightly hypocritical on your part.. so IN 2017 you will have an issue with proprietary cables will you.. nope, didn't think so. ..