Leaked Walgreens Memo Reveals It Will Launch Apple Pay on October 18th

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Posted October 12, 2014 at 1:02am by iClarified

A leaked Walgreens memo reveals that the retailer is set to launch Apply Pay on October 18th.

The memo was posted by MacRumors and reads as follows:

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Store Managers,

In preparation for the launch of Apple Pay on October 18, we would like you to cover the following material included in the tasks be[...] activation. Walgreens will be one of the participating retailers and we want to make sure that all your team members are prepared [...] customer questions/concerns.

Enabling this new technology will:

● Support Walgreens' mission of being "America's Most Loved Pharmacy-led Health, Wellbeing and Beauty Enterprise"
● Continue our commitment to offer ultimate customer convenience
● Reinforce our position as a leader an innovator in the mobile world

Customers that participate in Apple Pay will immediately be able to use the service that is easy, secure, and ensures their privacy at [...] only need to tap their iPhone 6 to the upper portion of the pinpad to pay for their purchase. It is that easy!

If any questions/issues arise around Apple Pay or Near Field Communication (NFC) aka the upper portion of the pin pad, please us th [...] processes to escalate.
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It's unclear if Apple's launch date for Apple Pay is the same as Walgreens. The company is holding a special event on October 16th at which it is likely to announce the official launch date.

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AndyL - October 13, 2014 at 6:28am

they kinda forgot about iCloud Keychains huh ... that was so "last year" tech

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gamerscul9870 - October 13, 2014 at 10:09am

What do you mean? How is that involved?

justabrake - October 12, 2014 at 1:13am

What would really amaze me is if ebay accepted it !

gamerscul9870 - October 12, 2014 at 3:46am

And how is there going to be a reader nearby exactly?

justabrake - October 12, 2014 at 4:19am

I don't think they could of left out all online purchasing !

Nitro Junkie - October 12, 2014 at 6:46am

No way eBay would ever accept apple pay since they own paypal. Who has had some pretty harsh things to say about apple pay as of late.

Nitro Junkie - October 12, 2014 at 6:50am

Apple was considering having paypal as a apple pay partner until they signed a deal with Samsung. If it wasn't for that it might have happened. That's one reason paypal is salty over the whole deal. Even though it isn't big now a lot of payment service companies are afraid of what apple pay could become.

Macer - October 12, 2014 at 4:34pm

You gotta understand how apple pay works. It uses NFC for transactions. So it will never work online. It needs a physical device that you receive your the info from the iPhone 6, 6plus

justabrake - October 12, 2014 at 4:51pm

I do understand how it works but if they just limited to bricks and mortar then it's a FAIL ! I can't tell you the exact figure of online shoppers but it must be at lease 40% !

Shadowr3alm - October 13, 2014 at 1:56pm

Yes if they just limited to bricks and mortar then it's would FAIL but they are not. They are also adding support for the apps to use apple pay so it basically is like Paypal but yes it has some limitations.

justabrake - October 13, 2014 at 4:25pm

Well ebay and PayPal is splitting up into two company's for what reasons I don't know but it would be a good idea if apple pay was aloud in ebay it would be a plus for people that hate PayPal and might encourage sales !