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Title    JCPenney Explains Why It Dropped Apple Pay
Date    Wednesday April 24 2019, @12:42AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the another-nail-in-the-coffin dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/23/2352236

upstart writes:

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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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Links

  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "JCPenney explains why it dropped Apple Pay – TechCrunch" - http://social.techcrunch.com/2019/04/22/jcpenney-explains-why-it-dropped-apple-pay/
  3. "JCPenney" - https://crunchbase.com/organization/jcpenney-com
  4. "deadline" - https://www.visa.com/chip/merchants/grow-your-business/payment-technologies/credit-card-chip/docs/emv-newsletter-october2017.pdf
  5. " supporting EMV contactless chip functionality" - https://usa.visa.com/support/merchant/library/visa-merchant-business-news-digest.html
  6. "April 20, 2019" - https://twitter.com/askjcp/status/1119595205559234560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
  7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=33178

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