Tried to use ApplePay at CVS yesterday

[stephen]

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.

[Speedy]

And CVS wont be:

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1784946

[Numo]

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.

[mrbigstuff]

I do not have an iPhone, but avoid CVS at all costs because of their usurious markups on prescriptions (and most other things, too).

[space-time]

to be fair, CVS banned tobacco sales, so they try hard to suggest they care about the health of their customers.

[OWC Jamie]

hey, that must be why they cleared the shelves of all the obesity poisons, too

[OWC Jamie]

next it will be all the meds with side effects that kill people



CVS cares

[vision63]

Yesterday, CVS blocked NFC. I used Google Wallet there for 2 years. Til yesterday. They still take debit cards though.

[Lemon Drop]

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

[freeradical]

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"...