Tag: walmart mobile payments

New Walmart m-commerce features allow customers to scan and go with self checkout

Jorge Gonzalez
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While self checkout isn’t new technology, the latest version lets shoppers scan products as they shop. The latest Walmart m-commerce feature is starting to be rolled out, making it faster and easier for consumers to check out. The tech brings together the use of mobile commerce on customer scanners with the self checkout desks. The idea behind the new Walmart m-commerce option is to make it possible for consumers to use handheld devices to scan products as they shop. That way, by the time they arrive at the self checkout…

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Walmart Pay now available in Texas and Arkansas stores

Jesse Collins
Walmart Pay app QR codes self checkout

The largest retailer in the world is expanding its mobile payments system into more states and locations. The biggest retailer on the planet has already launched its Walmart Pay mobile payments system but now the company is starting to roll it out in an increasingly large number of different locations, the latest of which have included the stores in Arkansas and Texas. With every new store location, the retailer makes itself larger mobile wallet competition for other large players. The goal of Walmart Pay currently appears to be to compete…

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QR codes are central to Walmart’s new mobile payment system

Julie Campbell
Walmart Pay app QR codes self checkout

The retail giant has launched a system to compete with Apple Pay and that uses quick response codes. Walmart recently announced that it would be including itself among the newest players in the mobile payments category and that its branded system, Walmart Pay, would use QR codes as a part of the transaction verification process. The name of the mobile payments system makes it clear that it is meant to compete with Apple, Samsung and Google, among others. The system based on QR codes has now gone live in select…

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