Comment by jen20
2 years ago
Presumably they do not because they want to track you via your credit card number, and permitting Apple Pay (maybe others too) would hinder that.
2 years ago
Presumably they do not because they want to track you via your credit card number, and permitting Apple Pay (maybe others too) would hinder that.
It's more that they want to try and convince people to pay with Walmart's own lower-cost (to them) app if you want to do contactless payments from your phone. If they made it easier to use Apple Pay, why would anyone ever use their app?
Why would paying with the Walmart app be lower cost to Walmart? Both the Walmart app and Apple Pay are essentially, as far as payments go, just digital wallets that you can store credit card information in.
When you use them it is still a charge to one of those credit cards.
It might actually cost Walmart more in my case, because the card I have on file has larger rewards for online purchases than it does for in-store purchases, and the Walmart app processes purchases as online even when made in-store. If I pay with the physical card it is processed as in-store.
Apple Pay is just as traceable if they want it to be.
They’re just stubborn and want people to use their option (and card, if possible).
As it is you can load any credit card into the Walmart app and pay by pointing the “check price” barcode camera at the screen.
> Apple Pay is just as traceable if they want it to be.
[Citation Needed].
On the other hand, stores like that probably already do facial recognition on customers, so it really is just intransigence to not allow contactless payments.
See https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple... - the DPAN stays the same at a particular merchant, so Walmart sees all but can't necessarily directly "know" what you're buying at other stores.
Apple Pay and Google Pay have their own virtual numbers, rather than using your regular card number, but the number doesn't rotate.
For example, our local bus company can quite happily offer capped daily and weekly fares when folk use the same device to pay.
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The device account number does not rotate with every transaction. You have to unlink your device from your credit account and re-enroll to do that.
I presume the same.
I always rate my experience 1 star when checking out at Walmart because of this. Probably won't change anything, but I feel I can't just stop going to Walmart because then Amazon is the only place left. Which is also fucked up but let's stay on topic.