{"id":649257,"date":"2026-08-21T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/649257\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:31:13","slug":"walmart-to-begin-accepting-apple-pay-in-u-s-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/649257\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart to Begin Accepting Apple Pay in U.S. Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"

After years of holding out, Walmart today announced<\/a> that it will finally begin accepting tap-to-pay options like Apple Pay in some of its Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in the U.S. starting Monday, August 24. The retailer plans to roll out tap-to-pay support to all of its U.S. stores by the end of 2026 and to its gas stations by mid-2027.<\/p>\n

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“We want customers and members to have choice in how they pay, so they can check out in the way that works best for them,” said Walmart, in a press release. <\/p>\n

Other major U.S. retailers like The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Kroger, and Texas-based grocery store chain H-E-B already reversed course and rolled out tap-to-pay support in recent years, leaving Walmart as one of the most notable remaining holdouts until now.<\/p>\n

Before this, Walmart prioritized its own Walmart Pay system that involves scanning a QR code at checkout, but it has finally listened to customer feedback and decided to accept NFC-based tap-to-pay options like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay at its U.S. stores. Tap-to-pay support extends to physical credit and debit cards.<\/p>\n

With Apple Pay, launched in 2014, you can simply hold your iPhone or Apple Watch near the payment terminal to pay with a digital version of an eligible credit or debit card stored in the Apple Wallet app. Apple Pay has a lot of privacy protections, including hiding a customer’s actual credit card number during the payment process.<\/p>\n

Existing payment options like Walmart Pay will remain available.<\/p>\n

Walmart has already accepted Apple Pay in its Canadian stores since 2020. It is unclear if the retailer will begin accepting tap-to-pay options in Mexico too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of holding out, Walmart today announced that it will finally begin accepting tap-to-pay options like Apple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[11862,18,1176,19,17,279,82,17487],"class_list":["post-649257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple-pay","tag-eire","tag-featured","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-walmart"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117134222935481874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}