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Walmart doesn’t let you use contactless pay unless you use their app. several times now I’ve gone there to grab a few things, not realizing i didn’t have my card with me, and had to leave a full cart behind because i will not install their adware.

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leadore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Walmart doesn’t let you use contactless pay unless you use their app.

By “contactless pay” I assume you’re talking about paying by using a smartphone app? Obviously I don’t care about that because the whole point of my post is that I’m not using a smartphone, so obviously I have no apps of any kind.

But if by “contactless pay” you meant paying with your debit card by tapping it or holding it near the card reader, yes they do have that like everyone else.

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s_s@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Back in the day, Walmart and Apple fought over contactless pay standards for the US.

Apple’s standard was eventually mass adopted, and has Walmart refused to license the tech. So you have to use their app, which uses their own tech stack.

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