“JCPenney has started testing its store credit cards with Apple’s Apple Pay payments service, allowing customers at one location in Texas to add their JCPenney charge cards to Apple Pay,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors.
“Customers in the Dallas–Fort Worth area visiting the JCPenney store at The Village at Fairview are able to participate in the Apple Pay pilot program, which is set to roll out to stores nationwide in the spring of 2016,” Clover reports. “Customers with a JCPenney charge card receive a notice about the Texas pilot program when attempting to add a JCPenney card to Apple Pay using the Wallet app.”
Clover reports, “The notification also includes details about the full launch of the JCPenney Apple Pay service.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Slowly but surely, Apple Pay continues to grow. Here’s to an Apple Pay growth spurt, soon!
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
