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Apple Pay rival CurrentC delayed, may never see release following employee layoffs

The CurrentC horse may never even make it out of the gate. CurrentC, the payment platform backed by a group of retailers under the banner Merchant Customer Exchange that caused a kerfuffle when Apple Pay launched, may never see release. The consortium announced Monday that the CurrentC rollout has been postponed and that the company […]

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Best Buy quietly rolls out support for Apple Pay, begins accepting transactions within some of its locations

Best Buy and in-store Apple Pay finally tied the knot, albeit Best Buy has yet to officially announce it. Best Buy recently began rolling out full Apple Pay support within its stores, a new YouTube video and Reddit thread confirming that customers have made successful debit and credit card purchases using both Apple Pay and […]

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Rite Aid to accept Apple Pay beginning Saturday, August 15th

Rite Aid has apparently gone for both CurrentC and Apple Pay. Last year, when a group of retailers disabled their Merchant Customer Exchange devices in favor of the upcoming CurrentC payment system, it was unknown as to whether they’d opt for Apple Pay. Drug store chains CVS and Rite Aid were among the first to […]

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Hours after citing capable security, CurrentC announces unauthorized access of users’ email accounts

Hubris, anyone? Just hours after publishing a blog post answering some questions about its upcoming CurrentC mobile payments system and touting the security of its cloud-based storage of sensitive information, the company behind the effort, Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) has alerted users of unauthorized access to their email addresses. Per MacRumors, the company released the […]

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CVS, Rite Aid refusing to accept Apple Pay system, lend support to current CurrentC payment system

Call it a trade blockade of sorts, but you might not be able to use Apple Pay to purchase items at CVS or Rite Aid for a while. Per the New York Times and 9to5Mac, Rite Aid has joined CVS in disabling Apple Pay as a payment method in its stores. Like CVS, Rite Aid […]