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JCPenney Explains Why It Dropped Apple Pay

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @12:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-nail-in-the-coffin dept.

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JCPenney explains why it dropped Apple Pay – TechCrunch

JCPenney quietly ditched Apple Pay this month. The decision was announced in response to a customer complaint on Twitter, but without any context or further explanation at the time. JCPenney had first rolled out Apple Pay into testing in 2015, then expanded to all its U.S. stores the following year, and later to its mobile app.

The retailer now claims the move was necessitated by the April 13, 2019 deadline in the U.S. for supporting EMV contactless chip functionality.

As of this date, all terminals at U.S. merchants locations that accept contactless payments must actively support EMV contactless chip functionality, and the legacy MSD (magnetic stripe data) contactless technology must be retired.

JCPenney was not ready to comply, it seems, so it switched off all contactless payment options as a result. However, it hasn’t ruled out re-enabling them later on, it seems.

JCPenney made the decision to remove Apple Pay for our stores, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We will definitely forward your feedback regarding this for review.

— Ask JCPenney (@askjcp) April 20, 2019

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @02:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @02:06PM (#834344)

    I think the restriction is on using a legacy mag-stripe-like contact-less payment rather than the EMV compliant contact-less.

    I can understand not wanting a CC# transmitted in clear-text over the air when that is sufficient to complete a transaction, the security is... totally absent.