Home Depot rolling out Apple Pay

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Home Depot Is Slowly Rolling Out Apple Pay Support

Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/08/home-depot-apple-pay-support/
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Home Depot is the only place I shop that still doesn’t accept Apple Pay. Recently we bought a washing machine there, and it took many tries for the guy to get the transaction entered by typing on his computer (terrible system - if you need to change the delivery date, they have to start from scratch, etc.). Anyway, my wife had to keep reading out our credit card number for the guy, and finally asked “can we just use apple pay?”. I laughed.

The guy - definitely not a techie - responded that they don’t support it, because of “poor security.”

I laughed again.

He asked why I was laughing, so I explained to the guy that, unlike a credit card, an apple pay transaction cannot be replayed, and you can’t intercept a useful card number or secret code from it like you can for a credit card. He was genuinely dumbfounded.

He told us “we were told that if asked about apple pay, we are supposed to say it’s not secure enough.”
 
good they had it at first they were one of the first then dropped it. walmart needs it they are about the only place I go that does not have it.
 
Last time I was there I had to drive all the way back home to get my debit card because they wouldn't accept Apple Pay, they're in the stone age when it comes to this stuff.
 
fooferdoggie said:
From what I understand, tap to pay with a card is still not as secure as Apple Pay.
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Apple Pay is more secure. Apple Pay never transmits your credit card number and instead transmits a token that cannot be predicted and cannot be reused. If the retailer gets hacked, or an employee there goes rogue, there’s nothing they can do with the information they have.

I’m old enough to remember when clerks used to steal carbon paper and use it to steal credit card numbers. Happened to me several times - each time at Sears!
 
About damn time. It's not just that they didn't accept it, but also that they have the worst card readers in retail. Every time I go there it's a 50/50 chance the reader will spit out errors.

A short while ago I spoke to an employee at the self checkout area and he said that's the number one complaint by both customers and employees.
 
Man I have taken Apple Pay for granted. Within months of it existing all the Australian banks were on board and pretty much every merchant here already accepted payWave chip proximity payments.

I haven’t used cash in years.

Even individuals I know anccept apple pay and swipe to pay for things like garage sales with cheap devices linked to an app on their phone.
 
throAU said:
Man I have taken Apple Pay for granted. Within months of it existing all the Australian banks were on board and pretty much every merchant here already accepted payWave chip proximity payments.
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Here (Spain) banks took a bit longer to start accepting Apple Pay, because (if I remember correctly) some banks wanted to roll their own solution... based around QR codes. Thankfully Apple Pay adoption went well worldwide.

I even switched banks to the first one that supported Apple Pay here and eventually closed other accounts.
 
I really thought Apple Cash would take off, but somehow Venmo stole the show.
 
Cmaier said:
don’t shop at walmart, dude.
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We have studiously avoided home depot because the owner was such a total bag of turds (and we had good, local alternatives). He died a couple weeks ago. Not sure if that will affect our habits.
 
Andropov said:
Here (Spain) banks took a bit longer to start accepting Apple Pay, because (if I remember correctly) some banks wanted to roll their own solution... based around QR codes. Thankfully Apple Pay adoption went well worldwide.

I even switched banks to the first one that supported Apple Pay here and eventually closed other accounts.
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Yeah there were some stragglers here, but it was less than 12 months before (as far as I can recall) they were pretty much all on board, at least the major banks. Payment wise, ApplePay just works like PayWave (or other bank equivalent NFC) which we've had here pretty much everywhere since 2006. We had some banks trialing mobile phone payments in 2009.

i.e., as soon as your bank supported ApplePay (in order to add your card), it "just worked" pretty much almost everywhere in the country that supports card payment. Which is almost everywhere, in the past 5 years I can count one place that only accepts cash that I've visited. :D
 
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throAU said:
i.e., as soon as your bank supported ApplePay (in order to add your card), it "just worked" pretty much almost everywhere in the country that supports card payment. Which is almost everywhere, in the past 5 years I can count one place that only accepts cash that I've visited. :D
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Same here, cards already supported NFC anyway so all the terminals supported Apple Pay from day one. It's just that banks didn't (at first). I think payment terminals needed to out of their way to disable Apple Pay if they wanted to. Only remember one place that supported NFC payments but not Apple Pay. It was at a highway toll booth, the company that owned the highway was trying to push users to use a different app to pay. Trying to use Apple Pay on the NFC terminal triggered an error message saying something like "Mobile payment disabled" on the terminal.
 
Rolled this out at our local Home Depot. They also more than doubled the previous self checkout terminals with in your face security, literally. There’s not just a camera on every register, but also a large screen at head level showing you exactly what is being filmed.
 
Chew Toy McCoy said:
Rolled this out at our local Home Depot. They also more than doubled the previous self checkout terminals with in your face security, literally. There’s not just a camera on every register, but also a large screen at head level showing you exactly what is being filmed.
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Same here SF mid-peninsula HD. Check out is so much faster now - a huge plus.
 
Chew Toy McCoy said:
Rolled this out at our local Home Depot. They also more than doubled the previous self checkout terminals with in your face security, literally. There’s not just a camera on every register, but also a large screen at head level showing you exactly what is being filmed.
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Now they just need to hire some off duty police officers to watch the doors to keep people from just walking out with stuff. Then maybe we can get some of it unlocked.
 
Herdfan said:
Now they just need to hire some off duty police officers to watch the doors to keep people from just walking out with stuff. Then maybe we can get some of it unlocked.
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That’s on Home Depot, if they care enough about it they’ll do it.
 
Herdfan said:
Now they just need to hire some off duty police officers to watch the doors to keep people from just walking out with stuff. Then maybe we can get some of it unlocked.
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I know there probably isn't a good way for them to track this kind of loss of business, but there are times I just won't buy something at a store if it requires me to find somebody to unlock it. Maybe the item gets stolen more than people like myself choosing to not buy it. Dunno.
 
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