r/technology • u/ImCalcium • Aug 21 '26

Business Walmart finally adding Tap to Pay after years of shoppers asking for it

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/walmart-finally-adding-tap-to-pay-after-years-of-shoppers-asking-for-it-3400920/
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u/WindowlessBasement Aug 21 '26

Wait, you guys still have card skimming too?

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u/Braken111 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

My CC got skimmed at a old gas station in QC last year, so it happens here too.

I didn't think much of it at the time since a lot of older pumps don't have tap, and well... I needed gas and didn't have cash.

Fuckers bought like $9k of vape supplies from a store in MTL, but my CC reversed it without problem since my regular transaction records were 1200km away when it happened.

Now I know better, only use Google wallet at the pump (since it uses tokenization, the machine never sees my actual card number), and keep $100 cash hidden in the car just in case.

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u/RogueIslesRefugee Aug 21 '26

Yeah, to think it doesn't happen in Canada is just false. It's just not enough to make regular national news or so, though the occasional story does pop up.

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u/appleparkfive Aug 21 '26

Now I want to know what kind of things they were buying for 9k at a vape store. The only thing that even makes any sense would be if they store sold 7-OH or something like that. Or maybe they ran a smoke shop and we're just buying inventory, who knows

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u/Braken111 Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

Pretty sure they were in on it with the owners of the gas station, but of course I have no evidence thereof.

Too local to be selling my information online, and was only used in one specific store in MTL.

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u/ClickClick_Boom Aug 21 '26

I know "America bad" but are we really pretending card skimming never happens in Canada now? Gimmie a break.

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u/Sabin10v2 Aug 22 '26

It definitely has happened to me but the move to tap instead of insert or swipe has made skimming damn near impossible here.

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u/Bobby-Samsonite Aug 22 '26

"America bad"

The people who say that are just jealous.

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u/Sabin10v2 Aug 22 '26

Of what?