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There's now a boycott brewing on Reddit amongst Apple, Android, and Windows Phone subreddits for stores that support CurrentC
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Lets boycott retailers who are disabling NFC in stores. /r/apple /r/android /r/windowsphone are all partaking. : technology
Here's an article explaining CurrentC in more detail
CurrentC Is The Big Retailers? Clunky Attempt To Kill Apple Pay And Credit Card Fees | TechCrunch
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Lets boycott retailers who are disabling NFC in stores. /r/apple /r/android /r/windowsphone are all partaking. : technology
Here's an article explaining CurrentC in more detail
CurrentC Is The Big Retailers? Clunky Attempt To Kill Apple Pay And Credit Card Fees | TechCrunch
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Well if it's only rite aid, CVS Walmart & bestbuy that's specifically blocking it/not allowing it, then just boycott them.
If the other companies allow all forms of payments, then that's ok with me.
If the other companies allow all forms of payments, then that's ok with me.
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I sort of need CVS and Best Buy......
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WTF is "Kum and Go"?
Sounds like a drive through peep show.
Sounds like a drive through peep show.
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Thought the same thing when I saw that
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So use a traditional credit card or pay cash?
The design, as we know it, is inherently flawed. It's frightening that Walmart and others who are supporting this don't see the red flags.
What would be really interesting is to see Google and Apple not allow the CurrentC apps in their respective stores.
The design, as we know it, is inherently flawed. It's frightening that Walmart and others who are supporting this don't see the red flags.
What would be really interesting is to see Google and Apple not allow the CurrentC apps in their respective stores.
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So use a traditional credit card or pay cash?
The design, as we know it, is inherently flawed. It's frightening that Walmart and others who are supporting this don't see the red flags.
What would be really interesting is to see Google and Apple not allow the CurrentC apps in their respective stores.
The design, as we know it, is inherently flawed. It's frightening that Walmart and others who are supporting this don't see the red flags.
What would be really interesting is to see Google and Apple not allow the CurrentC apps in their respective stores.
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Especially if Apple is successful in courting major transit authorities. Could you imaging in NYC being able to have your MTA pass on your phone etc. Additionally I've read that Apple is already working with companies like HID for building access cards and things of the like. As a condo dweller and office person i'd love to be able to dump those stupid access cards and just use my phone.
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If you don't then that's fine, it's no different than those wallet cases that you put your RFID chipped transit card into it.
Assuming NYC uses chipped transit cards. In the Bay Area we do, same with Hong Kong and England.
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Yea, but don't you think they thought through this, at least a little bit? The whole design strikes me as having been designed by a bunch of drunks.
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A quick google search tells me that NYC subway doesn't offer a RFID based transit card???
Wtf its 2014 man...
Or am I mistaken?
Wtf its 2014 man...
Or am I mistaken?
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here's the article
Wal-Mart and Apple are in a bit of a tussle over Apple Pay, Apple's mobile payment system on the iPhone 6.
Wal-Mart is a leader of the Merchant Customer Exchange, a group of merchants working on their own mobile payment system.
Wal-Mart is not accepting Apple Pay right now. Members of MCX, including Rite Aid and CVS, shut down support for Apple Pay after a few days of accepting it, most likely out of a contractual obligation to MCX to use only MCX's mobile payment solution.
MCX's alternative to Apple Pay is called CurrentC. It has been in development since 2012, and it is a much clunkier solution. The user has to open the CurrentC app, then use a camera to scan a QR code, which is a boxy, bar code type of thing. Or, the user unlocks the phone, opens the app, then has a QR code generated that gets scanned by the retailer.
After we wrote about CurrentC earlier, a Wal-Mart PR rep reached out.
During a back-and-forth, we asked why Wal-Mart didn't accept Apple Pay, which is a pretty elegant solution to mobile payments. An iPhone owner simply holds his or her phone to a payment terminal, then uses his or her fingerprint to confirm payment.
Here's what we were told:
There are certainly a lot of compelling technologies being developed, which is great for the mobile-commerce industry as a whole. Ultimately, what matters is that consumers have a payment option that is widely accepted, secure, and developed with their best interests in mind. MCX member merchants already collectively serve a majority of Americans every day. MCX’s members believe merchants are in the best position to provide a mobile solution because of their deep insights into their customers’ shopping and buying experiences.
Our emphasis is added in there. These are mega corporations fighting for billions of dollars — Apple, the banks, Wal-Mart, etc. — so it's hard to know whom to really trust.
But we would trust that Apple is working with consumers in mind.
And we would guess that Wal-Mart is less concerned about consumers and more concerned with eliminating the 2% fee that comes with purchases by credit card. CurrentC bypasses credit-card fees, which will save Wal-Mart money in the long run.
In fact, Ron Shevlin, a retail banking analyst, says he asked former Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott why MCX could succeed when so many other consortia had failed. Scott's answer tells you a lot about CurrentC, and MCX. He said: "I don’t know that it will, and I don’t care. As long as Visa suffers."
Read more: WAL-MART: Here's Why We Don't Support Apple Pay - Business Insider
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Additionally, Apple is not willing to allow retailers to access customer's shopping habits, patterns, etc. from PAY. Not sure about Google Wallet, but basically the payment system provider gets to not only reduce the merchant fees, but sell/use the customer habit data.
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Well fvck Walmart never liked them, never shop there and will continue to do so.
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What exactly does Apple Pay know besides that Miz bought something for $3,500 at whackituntilitdrops.com brick and mortar store? Do they know the size and color of the fleshlight?
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They will know that you shop at Starbuck at the corner of X and Y every thursday and Sunday. When the Cigar store next to starbucks wants to promote a sale, this would be useful info to know in terms of who they push advertisements to.
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Apple pay doesn't track your purchases. CurrentC will and IIRC google wallet does too.
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The scare over purchase tracking is a bit overblown.
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If currentc retailers pass the savings to me, Ill use it.
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No way, you don't get a discount for paying cash.
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Not at bestbuy Walmart etc.
You pay cash, you pay the same as credit/debit/check/diamonds/gold/shit, etc
You pay cash, you pay the same as credit/debit/check/diamonds/gold/shit, etc
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If they wanted to really wipe out Visa/MC/Amex give me 3-5% discount for paying cash for everything and I would consider it. I agree that what they really want is my shopping data so they can send me spam.
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And to pass on the saved merchant fees to the CEO
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Its uncommon but there. Merchants do get hit with a nice fee for CC's
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Nonsense, it will trickle down! With that 2% they wouldn't keep it or give it to their shareholders, they'd invest in their company, hire more people (even though they won't need them), give their employees a raise and better benefits!
It will trickle down to everyone, just like the Bush tax cuts did, duh! Why do you think the wealth gap in America is so small?
It will trickle down to everyone, just like the Bush tax cuts did, duh! Why do you think the wealth gap in America is so small?
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CurrentC Alerts Users of Unauthorized Access to Email Addresses - Mac Rumors
LMAO with a data breach!!!! yes this was doomed From the start.
LMAO with a data breach!!!! yes this was doomed From the start.
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With CurrentC, you're not the customer — you're the product being sold.
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if you are not paying for it (and even sometimes if you are), you are the commodity.
That's the same with Google, they consider those using their apps and programs, even their phone as product, not customers.
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Why not?
Why claim they don't track purchases then, if they really are.
If they are found out to be then that would probably result in a big legal nightmare.
It's like those people I've been reading about who called Apple with getting help on Apple pay purchases, they tell them they can't do anything but to contact their bank/cc or merchant because they don't see anything
Why claim they don't track purchases then, if they really are.
If they are found out to be then that would probably result in a big legal nightmare.
It's like those people I've been reading about who called Apple with getting help on Apple pay purchases, they tell them they can't do anything but to contact their bank/cc or merchant because they don't see anything