“Many retailers have been less than responsive to the Apple Pay mobile payments system. Rather than accept fees that banks charge for making the transactions, Walmart, Best Buy, and others disabled NFC in their stores, preventing customers from using Apple’s system (along with other forms of payment),” Colin Lecher reports for The Verge. “The retailers’ solution is a payment system called ‘CurrentC,’ and it’s an idea that some NFC users aren’t so excited about.”
“CurrentC, a QR code-based app planning to launch next year (meaning reviewers haven’t actually used it in stores yet), appears to be the target of a semi-organized campaign for one-star reviews,” Lecher reports. “As of writing, the reviews breakdown on the App Store looked like this: 17 five-star ratings, zero four-star ratings, three three-star ratings, four two-star ratings, and 2,153 one-star ratings.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: MCX retailers should learn a lesson from the Market Basket saga post haste.
You do not have the power. The consumer has the power. In many forms. And we will use them all.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “buddabob” for the heads up.]
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