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Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday - stephen - 10-26-2014
And thrice it asked for an "Alternate form of payment."
Same credit card I use for everything else.
Anyone else encountered this? Were they just asking for the physical card to confirm? The store had not yet done any ApplePay transactions.
Re: Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday - Speedy - 10-26-2014
And CVS wont be:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1784946
Re: Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday - Numo - 10-26-2014
CVS is deliberately blocking ApplePay. Those better informed than I can explain. I won't be buying anything from CVS even though I don't own an iPhone.
Re: Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday - mrbigstuff - 10-26-2014
I do not have an iPhone, but avoid CVS at all costs because of their usurious markups on prescriptions (and most other things, too).
Re: Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday - space-time - 10-26-2014
to be fair, CVS banned tobacco sales, so they try hard to suggest they care about the health of their customers.
Re: Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday - OWC Jamie - 10-26-2014
hey, that must be why they cleared the shelves of all the obesity poisons, too
Re: Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday - OWC Jamie - 10-26-2014
next it will be all the meds with side effects that kill people
CVS cares
Re: Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday - vision63 - 10-26-2014
Yesterday, CVS blocked NFC. I used Google Wallet there for 2 years. Til yesterday. They still take debit cards though.
Re: Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday - Lemon Drop - 10-26-2014
Rite Aid has also blocked Apple and Google mobile payment systems
They're part of that "CurrentC" thing as well. Why not get their own Cha-Ching going? Apple doesn't have the market cornered on that. Everybody wants a piece of your wallet.
I'm going back to cash
Mobile payment systems = constant surveillance of your identity, contact information, physical location, money habits and purchases by every financial, tech, marketing, and advertising company under the sun
Re: Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday - freeradical - 10-26-2014
space-time wrote:
to be fair, CVS banned tobacco sales, so they try hard to suggest they care about the health of their customers.
The government makes more money off the sale of a pack of smokes than they do, so why bother selling them?
Plus, they can claim to be the "good guys"...