You don’t have to charge your car to 100%. If you’re in a store for 30 minutes, or a restaurant for an hour, that’s going to get you X number of miles further down the road even if you don’t completely top off your battery.
I know. Credit cards are so large and heavy. I can’t believe anyone carries one around anymore. If only pants had some kind of little compartment you could keep one in. Ah well.
Our town has lots of choices of the mega grocery stores like Von's/Safeway or Ralph's/Kroger and they're the most expensive options. Why would I feel bad they're losing business? Then there's Costco and Sam's Club. I don't hear people complain about them. Walmart is actually much cheaper for most items and while I don't like going there, I also don't like overpaying. We have plenty of other shopping options from small independent grocers to specialty store like Baron's or Whole Foods.
Yeah, except you said "That really should be the reaction everywhere", so I was giving my 2 cents worth. But I get what you mean about tiny towns with mom-n-pop stores.
They are fast chargers, even 15 minutes adds a significant number of miles to a car.
No, EV charger spots should be on the far edge of the parking lot so that ICEholes don’t park there.
Oh my goodness, the world is coming to the end (grin)! Who would’ve thought?
After years of holding out, Walmart today announced that it will finally begin accepting tap-to-pay options like Apple Pay in some of its Walmart and Sam's Club stores in the U.S. starting Monday, August 24. The retailer plans to roll out tap-to-pay support to all of its U.S. stores by the end of 2026 and to its gas stations by mid-2027.
"We want customers and members to have choice in how they pay, so they can check out in the way that works best for them," said Walmart, in a press release.
Other major U.S. retailers like The Home Depot, Lowe's, Kroger, and Texas-based grocery store chain H-E-B already reversed course and rolled out tap-to-pay support in recent years, leaving Walmart as one of the most notable remaining holdouts until now.
Before this, Walmart prioritized its own Walmart Pay system that involves scanning a QR code at checkout, but it has finally listened to customer feedback and decided to accept NFC-based tap-to-pay options like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay at its U.S. stores. Tap-to-pay support extends to physical credit and debit cards.
With Apple Pay, launched in 2014, you can simply hold your iPhone or Apple Watch near the payment terminal to pay with a digital version of an eligible credit or debit card stored in the Apple Wallet app. Apple Pay has a lot of privacy protections, including hiding a customer's actual credit card number during the payment process.
Walmart has already accepted Apple Pay in its Canadian stores since 2020.
Article Link: Walmart to Begin Accepting Apple Pay in U.S. Stores
Only same (brick-and-mortar) store sales growth slowed, not overall sales. Reason? Peoples' shopping style are changing. More Walmart shoppers are opting to order online and pick-up at nearby stores. Those orders are not counted as an in-store sale even though the items are picked from a brick-and-mortar store.
