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Walmart Subsidiary Asda Testing Apple Pay in U.K.
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They recently replaced their really old crappy card readers with contactless ones in the Neath superstore within the last month (haven't checked the Swasnea one yet). Used my apple watch to pay a few times and it works perfectly everytime.
It's about damn time Tesco started rolling out contactless as they have been extremely slow to replace their old readers.
The interesting thing is that most small shops and independents that have their card machine supplied direct from their bank can already take Apple Pay. If they have had their machine upgraded in the last few years to accept contactless, which most have, then Apple Pay just works. Most don't realise this or advertise the fact as I think it just happened overnight. Most places I have tried it, it work.
Now what they have to work out is how store cards can be used alongside Apple Pay. Pointless if you have to still get your Tesco Clubcard out to scan. Might as well then just use your physical credit card.
Now what they have to work out is how store cards can be used alongside Apple Pay. Pointless if you have to still get your Tesco Clubcard out to scan. Might as well then just use your physical credit card.
I seldom carry more than £10 in cash. I only pay in cash for things like the getting the car washed. Even the car parks use an app now.
I was surprised last time I was in the USA how few places even took chip and PIN.
I'm with Tesco Bank (credit card) so in a way I do earn *some* Clubcard points with Apple Pay (1 point per £4 spent in-store when I use it over, say, my Santander 123 MasterCard).
I know certain regions of the UK are able to add Clubcard to the Wallet app but it'd be better still if they followed Walgreen's over in the US.
Am more surprised Boots the Chemist never rolled that over here seeing as Walgreen's owns the majority stake in them now.
This has no bearing on what Walmart does in the US.
ASDA is just one of many players in what is probably the most competitive grocery market in the world, there in the UK. They just have to do Apple pay.
In the US market Walmart can make their own rules due to the combination of market dominance and having "lobbyist" influence to make regulation or interpretation of it, whatever they want.
For the record, if you look at Apple's market share, they also got rich on the same "low class" customers that you are sneering at. Everyone does.
ASDA is just one of many players in what is probably the most competitive grocery market in the world, there in the UK. They just have to do Apple pay.
In the US market Walmart can make their own rules due to the combination of market dominance and having "lobbyist" influence to make regulation or interpretation of it, whatever they want.
Apple doesn't care about Walmart, only low class buys from Walmart anyway, so the reason why Walmart it's not acceptingPay is because they know their costumers it's using Android
For the record, if you look at Apple's market share, they also got rich on the same "low class" customers that you are sneering at. Everyone does.
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Asda?! Can people who shop in Asda even afford an iPhone?
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I believe it's ASsociated DAiries.What does ASDA stand for? Is this an acronym or is that a real word that means something to the british people? Because I am only aware of the American Sleep Disorder Association. And hopefully these stores don't put people to sleep
We must have a diffrent definition of low class then. I know plenty of people making 6 figures who still shop at Walmart. Plus Walmart sells iPhones.Apple doesn't care about Walmart, only low class buys from Walmart anyway, so the reason why Walmart it's not accepting
Sainsbury's are pushing out a new till system, it started with convenience stores and has recently expended to a small trial section of larger stores.
By all accounts they have or are about to have found solution so the stores with older till systems can accept contactless as not all stores will have the new system before the end of the year. There will be a trial area of stores (unknown) that will have contactless from the end of September. I would imagine the £30 limit will be in place during the trial run, but it is hopeful that all stores should have contactless by the end of the year.
I'm guessing you haven't had to watch someone you love slowly die of cancer. How I wish it was only as horrible as shopping in a superstore.
For someone who so desperately seems to be seeking attention for being such a sensitive soul, that's quite the assumption to make about someone.
What I've been through with my family is none of your business, but YOU WENT THERE. Dealing with mental illness among multiple family members and the effects it has on the brain and dealing with repeated suicide attempts is tough enough. Try doing it while your wife is pregnant while trying to raise a toddler, while your next door neighbor has the police knocking down her door once per week (including a raid with five police cruisers) while she threatens to shoot people waving her gun around while her friends cook meth in her house, while trying to deal with the racial controversy at work that was continuously on the front page of many newspapers and news websites in the United States. And that's not even including our loved ones who have died of cancer. I sat with my wife just a few years ago as she watched her grandfather slowly die of cancer in pain. I watched my grandmother and my wife's aunt go through awful chemotherapy. So don't you lecture me. All that does it make you sound like an ass because you don't know the person you're talking to. For someone who has been on the forums since 2003, you sure sound immature.
Walmart is the cancer of the retail industry. But no, you just want to nit pick and blow everything out of proportion. Look at me, look at me! I'm so serious and caring. Look at how great I am taking every single word completely literally. I mean honestly man. Do you realize how you sound when you say something like that out loud? It's beyond Debbie Downer and goes into the realm of the truly bizarre. I'll give you a pass if you're autistic (and before you go down that path of attack, my wife worked with autistic children for years so many of our friends have them and I understand how they can take things literally so I'm being serious about it).
Getting back to my main point: Few people outside of Walmart or the deep south would argue against saying that Walmart is the cancer of the retail industry. They're known for putting small businesses out of business, threatening local governments, treating employees horribly, and pricing the product companies they work with right out of the market. They spread like cancer, infecting communities, and are impossible to get rid of. You're either new to English and the various idioms, expressions and metaphors found therein; or you're just looking for a fight. Either way you are now on my ignored list.
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If anyone else reads this, don't worry about me. I don't really want to talk about it further than this. I'm in a much better place now (literally, I moved), the controversies at work calmed down, my son was born a few weeks ago and is healthy, and everyone seems to be getting treatment now. Sadly, though, I did have to break off contact with my family of origin while they all get their crap together, because I felt the need to shelter my children from their behavior, instability, and the horrible things they were saying. I've also received counseling, which was supportive of the decision I made, so I'm very stable despite everything. It's part of the reason I've been more involved in the forums over the past year—it helps to take my mind off of things. All things considered, I couldn't be doing any better.
Though the 123 card would give you 4p per £4 rather than the 1p Tesco give!
Interesting, thanks for the update!
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...apple-pay-in-u-k.1989505/page-2#post-23276449
If they get new tills that accept contactless and nothing more then they will support Apple Pay automatically, but with the £30 limit. Not supporting Apple Pay if you support contactless is hard work - they would have to detect that something looking like a contactless card is actually Apple Pay and reject it and make sure not to reject any real contactless cards - and obviously pointless. Getting rid of the £30 limit is also hard work - they would have to detect that something looking like a contactless card is actually Apple Pay and set a higher limit, and make sure not to increase the limit for any real contactless cards.
(They can afford to increase the limit, because I can use contactless pay with a stolen contactless credit or debit card, but not with a stolen iPhone).
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That's a perfectly reasonable decision - if you don't want iPhone users in your store.
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One Sainsbury's store that I use quite often has terminals that clearly display the "contactless pay" sign. Except if you use your contactless card the display changes to something looking like it crashed, and you have to put your card in the reader and tap in your PIN to make it work. They probably got a few complaints (I am not bothered if they don't support contactless pay, but it's rubbish if it looks like they do but they don't), so now they all have big stickers "no contactless payment".
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ASDA now support contactless in most stores but it's still limited to £30. They just need to update and/or configure their terminals to accept higher amounts for Apple Pay.
Not sure why they haven't done it yet as they are now lagging behind Tesco and Sainsbury's who both accept limitless Apple Pay.
Not sure why they haven't done it yet as they are now lagging behind Tesco and Sainsbury's who both accept limitless Apple Pay.
Interesting, didn't know Tesco was now limitless. Might be worth posting on the Apple Pay UK thread.
Edit:just noticed you started that thread!
That was true here, too. When Apple announced that 200,000 locations took Apple Pay, they simply meant that's how many already took contactless payments.
When Apple talked about "launch partners", they mostly meant retailers who also added Apple Pay support it in their app. And/or banks that had signed up.