Overview
- Walmart continues to reject all NFC tap-to-pay options in the United States, including Google Pay, Samsung Pay, and contactless cards.
- Reports say many stores use terminals capable of contactless payments but have the NFC features intentionally disabled.
- Walmart Pay, introduced in 2016, requires scanning a QR code in the Walmart app, and Scan & Go remains limited to Walmart+ and Sam’s Club users.
- Linking payments through Walmart’s app ties transactions to customer accounts, enabling detailed purchase profiling that Apple Pay’s privacy protections would limit.
- Merchants do not pay extra fees to accept Apple Pay, several former holdouts such as Home Depot, Lowe’s, Kroger, and H‑E‑B now support it, and Walmart accepts Apple Pay in Canada.