Hobby Lobby doesn't from what I've heard. (I have no interest in ever shopping there for various reasons.)
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Walmart to Begin Accepting Apple Pay in U.S. Stores
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Hobby Lobby doesn't from what I've heard. (I have no interest in ever shopping there for various reasons.)
dontwalkhand
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They don't even scan items, and type in prices by hand. I don't expect them to have Apple Pay at all, and I am even surprised they even take cards to begin with at this rate. Then again, I have no interest in shopping there anyways, not only for the overstated reasons people give, but I also have no interest in the items they sell, at all, anyways. In fact, the aforementioned Walmart would have a subset of what I would need in that regard anyways.
It's effortless and almost no cost for a small business to buy their point of sale terminal and it will be modern and accept contactless and chip, etc. Apart from telling your CC merchant you want to accept contactless payments, it's pretty much part of the hardware. Walmart, I'm guessing, has to retrofit terminals at 11,000 stores.
dontwalkhand
macrumors 604
They just bought new terminals a few years ago, the Ingenico Lane 7000, which has NFC payments, deployed the same model in other countries (Canada namely, and had it enabled), and consequently disabled it in the United States. It was very much intentional.
In fact the older generation Ingenico iSC something or other, also had NFC payments possible, they just also chose not to enable it.
No, it isn't. Not in the least. And who published that data? Were they studies done by companies hired by Walmart and paid for with Walmart money?
It's not that I am "too good" for WalMart. It's that WalMart is just too *bad* in so many ways.
Anything's possible, I guess. After all, I originally said that WinCo would never take contactless since they don't seem to like cards at all in the first place (and only accept debit because they have no choice).
Speaking of debit, it would be nice if biometrics were treated the same as PIN. There's probably some technical or policy reason why it isn't, though.
Don't. The reader may not always work. It has happened to me. Always carry your physical cards with you. You might even forgot your phone (I did that just last week).
Jetscreamer
macrumors regular
Let's see how many people will rush to their local Walmart to use Apple Pay on August 24, only to discover is not available at their location yet. People only read the big, bold headline.
I did this at a restaurant once. They only accepted "Samsung Pay", but not Apple Pay. I just shrugged my shoulders and left the food at the register. I had forgotten my wallet, but had my phone with me.
Here's the kicker, though. It was a Korean restaurant (that I had eaten at many times, with really good food), but, erm....
Jetscreamer
macrumors regular
To me the obvious reason (outside of sales losses) is that they've found another way to get our data!!!
Scan and Go in Sam's is really like living in the future!!! It's one reason I'd get so mad at Walmart for their backwards checkout system. I have given them exactly one Star because of it, every time I shop there, which is a lot.
klm9210
macrumors regular
I worked there for 5 years through high school/college. After you move on, you never want to step foot in another Walmart again... Apple Pay be damned
Rafagon
macrumors 68000
Smart minds think alike.
Walmart to Begin Accepting Apple Pay in U.S. Stores
"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... So then, all these years they've held back from allowing Apple Pay their philosophy was what -- "we could care less if our customers want convenient ways to...
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BeatsByTim
macrumors 6502
I agree. I'll choose Sam's over Costco just because it's so much easier, faster and unlike going to Costco, I don't get all stressed out with parking and long lines. I actually enjoy going to Sam's.
If you thought that felt like the future, too bad you never tried an Amazon Go store. You would enter by scanning a QR code in the Amazon app on your phone. Then, once beyond the gate, you would just pick up any items you wanted off the shelves, turn around, and walk back out through the turnstiles and out of the store. Your method of payment was auotmatically charged for what you picked up and took off the shelves. What if you picked something up off the shelves, but then put it back before you walked out through the turnstiles? You weren't charged for it. It worked flawlessly 99% of the time.
Once I was charged for an item I didn't take, because I followed another customer too closely out through the turnstiles. There were just a couple of other times I got charged for something I didn't walk out with, but all you had to do, if that happened (and it rarely did), was just go on the mobile Amazon app, and select the offending item, write an explanation, and you would be refunded for that item.
There was one of these stores just two blocks away from where I was working, and I went in there almost every day, sometimes twice a day, and with coworkers. There was another one near where I had a doctor's appointment. Amazon eventually shut down all of its Amazon Go locations.
Mousit
macrumors newbie
Have you been by those EV charging stations and looked at them? At least in my area, the ones they've built have no payment terminal on them whatsoever. They're 100% Walmart App only, and also require a Walmart account too (because you pay with Walmart Pay only). There's signs plastered all over them saying this.
Unless Walmart plans to retrofit these chargers with payment terminals, they will continue to not accept on-site payment of any kind, nevermind gain any benefit from tap to pay or Apple Pay or anything like that.
burgman
macrumors 68040
Exactly who forced you to not American made products but by cheaper foreign made ones? Companies provide what consumers vote for with the wallets.
