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They just need to tie it to store loyalty cards for discounts and coupons for it to succeed. At the grocery store I shop, people even go to the trouble of ente
by ntakasaki 12y ago
They just need to tie it to store loyalty cards for discounts and coupons for it to succeed.
At the grocery store I shop, people even go to the trouble of entering their phone number to track themselves if they don't have the card, to save a couple of bucks.
Since CurrentC avoids the credit card merchant fees, they can give even steeper discounts to push it.
- eridius 12y agoWalgreens has supported Apple's Passbook on iPhone since it launched, allowing me to always have my Walgreens card ready. Heck, I don't even have a physical card. Sure, I don't get coupons through Passbook, but if I cared about that, the Walgreens iOS app presumably has them. The same approach (Passbook for the card, and a separate app for added functionality like coupons) should work for any other retailer too. Heck, if the coupon thing really is an issue, they could join together to come up with a common app for retailer coupons without trying to muck with payments. Which is to say, store discount cards and coupons is basically a solved problem already. Trying to tie that to a payment mechanism just seems futile.