Months after Walmart Pay’s debut, the retailer held discussions with Apple about incorporating Apple Pay into the app, according to people familiar with the matter. Wal-Mart, in control of its own destiny and stores, has been able to train its associates and customers to use Walmart Pay. Unlike Apple Pay, which only works with Apple’s devices, Walmart Pay works with both iOS and Android phones — a feature that hastened adoption. “It means that Wal-Mart can make quicker changes, they can move faster in many respects than Apple Pay.” Forrester’s survey of 58,000 online consumers in the first half of 2017 found that seven per cent of them used Apple Pay in the past three months, while six per cent used Walmart Pay. Starbucks Corp., which has deployed the first successful retail mobile-payment app, uses Apple Pay as well.

Source: thestar November 07, 2017 17:26 UTC