“Chevron has kicked off an Apple Pay pilot program in the Bay Area that allows customers to use Apple Pay to pay for their gasoline directly at the pump, according to the company’s Twitter account,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “Apple Pay can currently be used at a Chevron location in San Ramon, with a second location in Cupertino becoming available in the near future.”
“Following the pilot program testing, it’s likely Chevron will expand Apple Pay to other locations across the United States,” Clover reports. “Apple Pay, which recently expanded to the United Kingdom, has been adopted at more than 700,000 locations across the United States.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: As this rolls out – still a ways to go, obviously – you can download the Chevron with Techron Station Finder and perform filtered searches to find stations with Apple Pay for free via Apple’s App Store here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
That’s my fuel. Would love not to pull out my wallet at the pump.
The pumps in California warn against operating a cell phone during fuelling. A spark could ignite vapours and lead to a conflagration. I don’t understand why the tech press haven’t picked up on this, unless they realised it applied to any cell phone, not just Apples’. Then again, that detail hadn’t ever stopped them from highlighting Apple’s complicity in the sad story of civilization’s decline.
Nice, I’ve been thinking, this is sorely missing piece.
All stations, everywhere. Sooner the better.
What is with Panera? Every time I go there they are using the register that isn’t connected to the credit card receptical for the customer. Their response is “I’ll have to cancel on this register and repeat your order on the other register”!, and this is when there is just one clerk working, all the other registers are empty!! Very frustrating how few establishments are using Apple Pay.
700,000 is a few?
Patience, Grasshopper. It’s only going on nine months since ApplePay was rolled out to the masses.
The costs to upgrade POS systems are significant – for large companies with thousands of registers, and for small companies with dozens of registers. Nobody running a business takes those costs lightly.
It will get to the point where most of the quick-transaction retailers you frequent support ApplePay, but it’s going to take several years. We’re not even close to the halfway point yet.