Apple Pay Blocked at Rite Aid and CVS in Favor of QR Code Payments

The list of retailers supporting Apple Pay during its launch in September was long and impressive, but in the weeks following the launch, some major retailers have blocked the service in favor of a competing option set to debut in 2015

According to user reports cropping up on Twitter, earlier this week, Apple Pay was operational at NFC terminals at Rite Aid and CVS, both non-Apple Pay partners, but was reportedly disabled over the course of the last 48 hours

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In one Twitter message (see below), a person claiming to be a CVS employee said that the company disabled NFC payments as of Saturday, a move that would also prevent Google Wallet users from using NFC payments Read more...

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