mbz321 wrote: ↑November 11th, 2022, 7:41 am
storewanderer wrote: ↑November 8th, 2022, 10:07 pm
And Wal Mart of course but we know that is because they are pushing the Wal Mart pay thing (and paying higher card not present rates to process those payments; ego ego ego).
I was wondering what the deal was with Walmart...card readers are so old you can't even tap the card to pay. I can't even think of a standard retailer that doesn't have that option these days besides Walmart. Hell, even Goodwill has tap to pay terminals.
7-Eleven uses the same card readers as Wal Mart uses and they have Contactless. New 7-Eleven opened here recently and installed those same old readers (units appear to be new).
Some Carls Jr. use those card readers too and they also have Contactless.
Jersey Mikes used to use those card readers too (like 5 years ago) and they had Contactless too.
This is a Wal Mart issue. Wal Mart did enable Contactless in Canada, because the card networks put out a rule that all merchants must accept Contactless by a certain point in time (maybe it is 2024). I expect a similar rule in the US by about 2028.
Why merchants like Wal Mart, Kroger, Home Depot, and Lowes continue to draw this out is beyond me. Kroger could literally flip a switch and enable this at all stores overnight if they wanted to. When a Kroger register/pinpad reboots it actually has the Contactless activate (4 round dots at top of pinpad) then as it cycles through the Kroger software it DISABLES the Contactless. Kroger actually had to do a software patch/command to DISABLE Contactless on its pinpads because the stock Verifone pinpad software they use automatically activates Contactless when the device starts up. In the case of Kroger it is more work for them to keep Contactless disabled than it is to enable it since their software for pinpads and registers has Contactless by default. Every other store with the pinpad/register software combination Kroger uses is now accepting Contactless (Giant, Giant Eagle, Harmons, Costco, Winn Dixie, Homeland, various independents).
Lowes is much more complicated with a very old POS (updated system is just a new interface, same old DOS based backbone behind it), Wal Mart is being stubborn since they have it activated in other countries, and so is Home Depot.
Even US Postal Service finally enabled Contactless in the past month or so.
Then we have the Nevada DMV where they still swipe cards... but after you go there and wait 3 hours even when you schedule an appointment (appointment mandatory, no walk ins, and 30 day wait for appointment) you forget it is 2022 and assume you are still in 1995 when swipe cards were leading edge technology.