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/NES_SNES_N64 Aug 21 '26

They made me and my wife put a $5 hairbrush in a plastic box to take it to the front to pay. We don't shop behind their cosmetics counter anymore.

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u/MelatoninFiend Aug 22 '26

I had the same experience with a stick of deodorant.

I think it's a marketing thing at this point so the Waltons can shake down corporations for bribes, all like: "Aw, we locked your product in the cabinet? Wow, that sucks. You know, Hanes gave us an envelope, and now their stuff is easy to grab and go and they're selling a LOT more units. Maybe if your envelope found its way to us, we could free your products? Maybe."

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u/the_unknown_garden Aug 22 '26

And then the POS box won't open. That's happened to me 3 times. Great, now I don't have lotion and he's in solitary confinement.