MacRumors:
Target last month announced that it would begin accepting Apple Pay at all of its stores in the coming weeks. That rollout has now begun.
MacRumors readers have shared photos of NFC-enabled payment terminals at select Target stores in the Northeast and Midwest, including the White Plains, New York location below. The updated interface indicates that Apple Pay is accepted along with Google Pay, Samsung Pay, and contactless credit cards.
This is one of the last shovelfuls of dirt thrown onto the coffin of the ill-fated CurrentC platform.
Hope they learned their lesson
Maybe.
Wal-Mart (which macOS hilariously autocorrected to Wall-Mart) is still dead set against NFC payment systems, which further entranch the credit card systems and their nontrivial interchange fees. That’s a large enough player that can, for a non-trivial segment of the American population, avoid full consolidation onto Apple Pay and Android Pay.
considering their credit card database hack some years back, they should’ve been among the first