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Does this mean CVS will re-enable Apple Pay on their CC readers?

• gst 10y ago
  It's not Apple Pay but all of NFC. Before CurrentC CVS accepted all types of NFC payments (Apple Pay, Google Wallet, NFS credit cards), but none of those works anymore.
  • tjohns 10y ago
    I stopped shopping at CVS out of protest at this silliness.
  • tuxracer 10y ago
    Hopefully whatever technology Samsung is using to power Samsung Pay catches on. It sends a magnetic field where you normally swipe your card. That "tricks" the machine into thinking a card was physically swiped. The terminal doesn't need to support NFC and it works even if NFC is turned off (as is the case for CVS).
    • gst 10y ago
      This won't be a long-term solution as the magnetic stripe is a legacy technology that's being phased out. Lots of US merchants already require the chip (if available on the card) instead of a magnetic stripe, and almost all European merchants only accept chip cards (and don't even have a reader anymore for the magnetic stripe).