Yet don’t allow google pay either. Unless you are a senior exec you don’t know any more than the rest of us.
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Walmart Still Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Daily Complaints
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I wonder if Walmart stores in the U.S. can survive this resistance from a popular payment method and continuation of customer complaints for it for the next 10 to 20 years.
Popular only for those who own an Apple device and are set up with Apple Pay.
Wal-Mart pay works perfectly well. I know people who have stood in a Wal-Mart, on their iPhone, talking to a family member at another Wal-Mart in another State...and watch the transaction complete in a few seconds.
You see, like Apple, Wal-Mart have their own walled garden also.
I never shop at Walmart so it’s not a problem for me. Glad Home Depot finally re-enabled contactless payments, including ApplePay.
Tap to Pay isn't limited to Apple devices or Apple Pay. It's available on Android devices and most credit cards.
Walmart does not like paying the higher interchange fees on CC transactions vs direct debit. Walmart will never accept ApplePay or GooglePay. The only thing I go to Walmart for is the FedEx shipping counter when I trade in Apple devices.
I have found that more and more places where I have previously used a credit card are now charging me a transaction fee. I used a debit card at a small grocery store a few months ago, and they added the transaction fee to the cost of my purchase.
Many businesses are no longer willing to absorb that transaction cost.
My thought is that businesses and merchants in USA that do card payments have the option to turn off contactless payments and tap to pay on their card terminals.
I could not find any sources that confirm that to be true. I found one article from the AP that said Tap will be encouraged, and that banks will be able to issue a single card for multiple accounts, and that new cards will stop having mag stripes, but existing cards with stripes will still work until they expire. Nothing says tap will be mandated in the near future.
Changes from Visa mean Americans will carry fewer physical credit, debit cards in their wallets
Visa has announced major changes to how its credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S. Features in the works will lead to Americans to carry fewer physical cards in their wallets and make the 16-digit credit or debit card number printed on every physical card increasingly irrelevant.
apnews.com
I was in a WalMart yesterday. When I checked out I was only able to swipe my card and PIN, as the chip-and-pin reader wasn't working. It's not convenient. For a company that works on such thin margins like WalMart, I understand forgoing Apple Pay. It would help if the other methods were more robust. I saw one person in line using the Walmart+ app, which looks a kludgy as all get out.
I think Walmart should redesign the Walmart app so it becomes really easy to enable the Walmart Pay section and once a transaction finalizes, displays a permanent digital receipt for each transaction. That would make it as easy to use as Apple Pay/Google Wallet.
Walmart+ do display a digital receipt from your transaction. I can even go back under purchase history and see my receipts whether it’s delivery or in-store. The receipt looks exactly like the printed receipt.
I could not find any sources that confirm that to be true. I found one article from the AP that said Tap will be encouraged, and that banks will be able to issue a single card for multiple accounts, and that new cards will stop having mag stripes, but existing cards with stripes will still work until they expire. Nothing says tap will be mandated in the near future.
Changes from Visa mean Americans will carry fewer physical credit, debit cards in their wallets
Visa has announced major changes to how its credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S. Features in the works will lead to Americans to carry fewer physical cards in their wallets and make the 16-digit credit or debit card number printed on every physical card increasingly irrelevant.
Mastercard will remove the magstripe from their debit cards and credit cards in 2030.
I wonder how the fallback method would work in Walmart stores of USA when the magstripe is removed and the chip still fails in their card readers. I wonder if this will cause Walmart stores of USA to get tap and Apple Pay by 2030 if this becomes a common problem in 2030 and later.
Actually, both my VISA debit card and my Mastercard credit card don't have the credit card number and expiration date printed in embossed letters on the front anymore. They now print the CC number, CVV number and expiration date on the back of the card instead. I expect the removal of the magnetic stripe to happen very soon since most credit card readers now read the EMV chip instead of the mag stripe.
But getting back on topic, I still think with Apple soon allowing the use of third-party payment systems on the NFC chip. I could see Walmart update the Walmart app so it becomes a tap-and-go system instead of a QR scan code system within the next 3-4 years.