AppleInsider Staff
Two large grocery store chains serving the St. Louis, Mo., area recently activated point-of-sale support for Apple Pay, offering customers a fast and easy checkout alternative to credit and cash.
Both Schnucks and Dierbergs Markets are now accepting Apple Pay at registers, joining nationwide grocers like Whole Foods that also support Apple's NFC-based payment system. Apple has yet to append its official Apple Pay website, but Schnucks and Dierbergs announced the news on their respective blogs latelast month.
Schnucks customers can use Apple Pay at each of the company's 98 locations across five states, while Dierbergs rolled out support at its 25 stores.
A report this week suggested Apple Pay is floundering as new and existing iPhone owners appear to be losing interest in the service, or abandoning the system altogether due to security concerns. However, Apple's service remains a big dog in the touchless payments sector, a position that could improve as Apple Pay's bank and merchant support network expands.
Christine McKee
Malcolm Owen
Wesley Hilliard
Marko Zivkovic
18 Comments
I know some of you are impatient but this is how progress usually works. There is a long way to go but these 325 locations today (including Pei Wei article) is a few more steps toward climbing that mountain. You can want it to go faster but it you are upset because it's not faster you're really not setting your exceptions properly.
I live in St Louis, went to Schnucks today, didn't use Apple Pay. Wanna know why? I have a Discover Card...
I live in St Louis, went to Schnucks today, didn't use Apple Pay. Wanna know why? I have a Discover Card...
And when your Discover card is hacked at the terminal and sold on the black market, we'll see how quickly you start using ApplePay.
Wanna know why?
Because the ApplePay transaction uses a one-time token that is no longer valid after that use...unlike your vulnerable little Discover card.
I live in St Louis, went to Schnucks today, didn't use Apple Pay. Wanna know why? I have a Discover Card...
You've probably heard, but Discover will be on Apple Pay this fall. (No specific date has been reported -- at least that I know of.)
And when your Discover card is hacked at the terminal and sold on the black market, we'll see how quickly you start using ApplePay.
Wanna know why?
Because the ApplePay transaction uses a one-time token that is no longer valid after that use...unlike your vulnerable little Discover card.
I believe he was getting at the fact that currently, Discover hasnt joined the rest yet, in supporting Apple pay (so therefore, he couldn't use the card, even if he wanted to), until iOS 9 launches (which is around when (I thought I had read) Discover Card is expected to be onboard).