“Apple Inc. said its mobile-payment service is now available in more than 2 million retail locations, with merchants such as Crate & Barrel, Chick-fil-A and Au Bon Pain rolling it out in stores,” Olga Kharif reports for Bloomberg.
“Online retailer Zappos.com added Apple Pay on its iPhone and iPad apps Tuesday as competition intensifies among mobile payment providers. Globally, mobile payments will increase to $620 billion in 2016 from $450 billion last year, according to a report from TrendForce,” Kharif reports. “‘We’ve been getting requests from customers to use Apple Pay for quite a while,’ said Aki Iida, head of mobile for Zappos. ‘It makes the customer experience easier, why not try it?'”
“In addition to pushing past its goal to make Apple Pay available in 1.5 million retail locations by the end of 2015, the company said the feature’s in-app purchase volume more than doubled in the last six months of the year compared with the first half,” Kharif reports. “In October, 16.6 percent of people who own newer iPhones had tried Apple Pay, an increase from 9 percent in November 2014, according to a survey by Pymnts and InfoScout, a consumer researcher. The service has been expanding globally.”
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