Walmart Still Not Accepting Apple Pay, Launches Walmart Pay Instead
The world’s biggest retailer isn’t giving Apple a foothold in its sales process just yet.
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Walmart, the world's biggest retailer, has refused to accept Apple Pay, Android Pay and other mobile payment services at its stores for more than a year. Now, it's digging its heels in and launching its own mobile payment system called — what else? — Walmart Pay.
The new checkout option will exist within Walmart's current app, which has 22 million active monthly users, executives told reporters during a live video briefing on Wednesday.
Walmart Pay will conduct transactions by scanning QR codes, versus the tap-and-go technology used by Apple and Google. The new Walmart system will display a code on the checkout screen, which the Walmart app reads using the phone camera. It's similar to the very successful mobile payment system rolled out by Starbucks — although at Starbucks, a code on the phone screen is scanned at the checkout.
Walmart Pay will roll out to a handful markets after the holiday season and launch nationwide in the first half of next year.
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A different feel from the Apple Pay launch
Walmart / Via Screenshot of video briefing