“Home Depot Inc. plans to enable Apple Inc.’s mobile-payment platform at its more than 2,000 stores, making it the largest retailer to accept Apple Pay,” Matt Townsend reports for Bloomberg.
“The retailer is updating its systems and intends to offer Apple Pay after the upgrade is complete, Home Depot spokesman Steve Holmes said, without providing a timetable for the rollout,” Townsend reports. “Customers already were able to use Apple Pay at some of Home Depot’s stores, although an agreement with Apple wasn’t in place. The world’s largest home-improvement retailer could accept mobile payments because its checkout terminals have near-field communication readers. Those devices have been turned off during the upgrade.”
Townsend reports, “Home Depot will join chains like Macy’s Inc. and Whole Foods Market Inc. in accepting Apple Pay at stores.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Okay, so — whew! — let’s all patronize Home Depot as soon as they activate Apple Pay!
In the future, Home Depot might want to consider making such announcements before they turn things off unexpectedly.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dan K.” and “Rainy Day” for the heads up.]
Related article:
Paypal partner Home Depot drops support for Apple Pay – May 5, 2015
Nevermind.
Hey MDN, that’s a pretty good Emily Litella imitation.
Exactly!
Panic over then guys you can all retract all those nasty emails you sent when you assumed the worst earlier today.
Why do you thing Home Depot spokesman Steve Holmes made the announcement?
So you think the backlash got to them, so they came up with a lame reason those NFC terminals were shut off? Yeah, I think that too. Home Depot is an outfit I patronize a lot. I was sorry to have to put ’em on my shit list , and now I am happy to take ’em off th list. As long as the suits running the company realize who’s really in charge, the consumer, I won’t hold a grudge.
They got rid of the guy who didn’t understand the consumer was in charge. Nardelli is now out ruining other companys, you know because he is a Jack (off) Welch disciple.
More, I’m surprised, but maybe not, that Warren Buffett doesn’t get a lot more heat to being in a partnership with that cut throat outfit 3G Capital.
They are the 2015 version of robber barons. At Heinz they just gutted everyone older than 50, and replaced them with 20 somethings at 1/2 or 1/4 the pay. They are working those people like slaves. They don’t even have cubes, they work at round tables. Every day you get to pick what table you work (slave) at. Man, that’s just a nasty legacy he’s leaving. He’s trying to buy his way into heaven with little Billy Gates.
So just like I thought.. A temporary change.
There go my trips to Lowes.
Don’t think Lowe’s accepts Apple Pay.
Oh but they will soon, you’ll see.
Here’s a link to an :
http://www.cultofmac.com/321636/home-depot-rejects-apple-pay-as-24-new-issuers-jump-onboard/
I think I am going to feel sick, with all this (co)motion…
Mom, dad need driving lessons again.
Turnabout is fair play!
Did HD hear a chorus of Apple Pay users so they announced what’s going on?
As I’ve been chattering with lobomac:
A) Maybe the source information about HD dumping Pay was wrong.
B) Maybe this is HD PR mandating that dumping Pay be reversed after the likes of us made a loud noise about it.
C) Maybe this is HD further fumbling and bumbling. (Which is how they managed to have customer credit card accounts stolen last year, after LOADS of warning about the ongoing problem starting with the very public Target account robbery fiasco.
You fools! This is just a ruse. THD announce they are cutting Apple Pay and then on the same day relent and announce they are going to support Apple Pay “some time in the future”. This “future” may never come.
Here’s what just happened:
a) They cut off Apple Pay
b) Backlash from people who say they will not shop at THD knee-capped before it got out of hand.
Job done.
Don’t bee fooled until they “actually” enable Apple Pay.
Where/when did they “announce” anything?………………………
Oh wait, they just turned ALL contactless payments off for a few days and people like YOU assumed they made some announcement about abandoning apple pay.
I was in jack in the box the other day and their credit card reader was down, they abandoned apple pay!!!!!!!!
I swear that so many Apple fanboys take everything remotely connected to Apple way to seriously, and every action by any company for any reason.. Is either to work with Apple or to attack Apple.
Maybe things happen that have nothing to do with Apple…
Here is what really happened:
http://consumerist.com/2015/05/05/apple-pay-unavailable-at-home-depot-as-retailer-upgrades-payment-terminals/
And guess what? Absolutely nothing to do with Apple, directly anyway.
I had ordered some stuff from Home Depot yesterday. I was prepared to refuse delivery, but I guess that I will cut them some slack.
Hardware issue.
Now I know why android douches call you sheep. Apple shops where they get the best value because they’re not idiots—profit is king. “Oh no! Let’s boycott! Oh wait, it’s ok now!” Yinz should be be ashamed.
It’s like what MDN is fond of saying ‘..If a retailer wants to antagonize their most well-heeled customers’ they are the ones that will end-up losing the battle.
That article does not say that Home Depot IS going to put Apple Pay in all of their stores … just that they would like to. I would like to be 6′ 2″ tall …
1st sentence, 4th paragraph –
“IF it pushes ahead with the plan, Home Depot would join chains like Macy’s Inc. and Whole Foods Market Inc. in embracing Apple Pay at stores.” (emphasis on IF)
Read my link above, the HD rep says that’s the goal of getting Apple pay back up.
Bloomberg isn’t the only one with the story.
I was surprised, pleasantly, to find that Big 5, that great sports store, you know, they accept Apple Pay. She said I was the first person to use it. haha
I use it wherever I can as I wish it to catch on as fast as possible.
If ain’t broked, don’t fix it.
This is all suspicious. Looks more like “quickly, tell the PA guy to say something before we lose more customer because our stu pid decisions “
All retailers have to upgrade their systems by the end of the year… Guess what HD just did?
Upgrade. I know it’s hard to read beyond the headlines and the BS in the comments section.
The Home Depot by me has had it activated for months now. I’ve used it many times.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, which is it?
Shades of 1984, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Hope Depot has always been at war with Apple, boycott Hope Depot.
Hold on.
Oceania has always been at peace with Eurasia, Home Despot has always been at peace with Apple, shop at Home Despot.
Tonight, the latest exciting torture episode at Guatanamo Bay, stay tuned one of your relatives is sure to be there, who knows they may even betray you.
This is getting really tiresome. The Catholiv Church abandoned torture centuries ago after finally realizing it did not work. Any western group still doing it either is not up on their history or they are just plain sadistic. Or downright stupid. Eastern groups, well, that’s another matter.
You are telling me this is tiresome but seeing that it is over a decade that a western group is doing this I think it’s beyond historical omissions, sadism and stupidity and more into the dark realm that fits those who are totally void of any sort of spirit, integrity or morality.
Karma’s going to be such a bitch.
This is complete BS, they turned it off for a reason. I was there the other day and even the employees were shocked that Apple Pay stopped working. No upgrading was going on. Sounds like backlash caused them to change their statement.
I guess Home Depot will sell a lot of precision screwdriver sets, LED lightbulbs and candy bars on the day they re-enable Pay.
Dagnabbit, I’m going to start buying my sheetrock at the online Apple Store!