Best Buy is the latest major US retailer to add support for Apple Pay, first for inside its iPhone app and later in its retail store locations.
Apple Pay can be used right now to purchase items via the official Best Buy app for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. There's no word on when Best Buy's US retail locations will begin accepting Apple Pay, with the company only saying it's due sometime "later this year.". Best Buy's press release added:
Today's consumers have many different ways to spend their money and we want to give our customers as many options as possible in how they pay for goods and services at Best Buy.
The acceptance of Apple Pay in the Best Buy app is the latest enhancement for our mobile platform. We are opening a technology innovation office in Seattle this summer to focus largely on mobile and will continue to implement new tools to enhance the customer experience in this important growth area.
Source: Best Buy
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Best Buy adds Apple Pay support in its iPhone app, in-store payments coming later in 2015
Awesome. Glad to see more retailers adding Apple pay as an option for customers.
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It's about time, Best Buy. . . . Now, Target, you're next.
Target already accepts Apple Pay but it's online only. Need it at the register level next . . .
The CurrentC conglomerate begins to crumble.
(Self +1 for alliteration.)
Totally forgot that even existed. Lol
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Totally forgot that even existed. Lol
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I seem to remember that Best Buy refused to support Apple Pay when it launched but my memory is blurry.
Ahh...the end of CurrentC could be coming! Most of us are Apple fans here...but I would love for Apple and Google to team up here and really make the push for NFC. It would be a win for both companies, and the consumer!
Omg lol this news is great. What happened to all the negative articles stating "CurrentC may really have a chance to beat out Apple Pay". Sad part is people forget about all those skeptic articles that surfaced.
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