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Walmart rolls out QR code-based Walmart Pay to iPhone app
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Walmart is finally rolling out its competitor to Apple Pay to its mobile app, making it one of the last few major retailers to offer some form of mobile-based payment system in its stores. Walmart Pay will allow customers to register their credit, debit, and gift card details to an account in the app, which can then be used to make payments at the checkout at the retailer's stores across the United States, though when individual stores will gain the ability to accept the payments remains unknown.
Initially announced in December last year, Walmart Pay relies on QR codes at payment terminals instead of NFC, with customers required to take a photograph of the QR code from within the app to register the current purchase. Customers will be able to authenticate a purchase using a four-digit code, or TouchID on some iPhones, with the receipt of the purchase also viewable from the device.
The rollout of Walmart Pay effectively continues Walmart's fight to take on Apple Pay from within its own store. Originally, Walmart and other retailers tried to create a rival system called CurrentC, which would work under a similar system to Walmart Pay, with the stores intending to use just that instead of rival payment systems. The CurrentC effort may have failed, but with this system, Walmart continues to resist implementing Apple Pay, Android Pay, and other digital wallets, preventing others from controlling how transactions in its stores are carried out.
The updated app, weighing in at 48.9 megabytes, is available to download now from the App Store.
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Updated my app yesterday, and it looks much more clunky than Apple Pay or another NFC-type solution.
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Some guys from Walmart must be thinking QR code is so hip. Apple is way ahead of the game.
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The typical walmart shopper has older phones that do not have nfc. Walmart knows this and are making it easier for them to spend their money at their store.
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I saw a failed attempt to do it on Saturday evening. Not sure of the cause of the failure, but the entire process is time-consuming.
I think the group that doesn't have NFC probably overlaps the same group that wouldn't use a phone to pay, and are fine with plastic or cash as it stands, too.
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