> When I first heard of businesses shutting down Apple Pay, I decided right then not to use CurrentC. There are many things wrong with it. From what I've been reading and hearing, those businesses who sign up to use CurrentC sign an agreement that they can't use any other payment system for 3 years and they'll be fined if they try to get out of their agreement.
AND they track some of the user and purchase data for sales purposes.
AND they require you to give them your bank routing and account numbers.
AND they store some of the information in "the cloud" (as opposed to a minimal amount, encrypted, on your phone).
AND the actual paying process is multi-step and cumbersome.
> I do not understand why businesses haven't looked into CurrentC to see how cumbersome it's going to be to use.
MCX has been forced to start back-tracking, saying members won't be fined if they drop out or accept Apple Pay. At least one supermarket chain (Meijer's, a regional American hypermarket chain with its corporate headquarters near Grand Rapids) has *already* broken ranks and stated they will be accepting Apple Pay.
> From my understanding, the reason businesses want it is there are no bank fees the businesses have to pay to use CurrentC. If that's true, it just shows one of the many instances of businesses being greedy bastardized and not thinking of their customers first.
Plus the user/purchase tracking — a second reason.
I don't expect to be able to use Apple Pay (in stores) until I can use Apple Watch with my iPhone 5S. If Rite Aid (my nearest and most convenient pharmacy, that I have been patronizing for decades) isn't accepting Apple Pay by then, I'm taking my thousands of dollars of medicine purchases annually over to Walgreen's.
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