Comment by Helithumper

Comment by Helithumper 4 days ago

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I found the palm payment at Whole Foods to be very convenient for the same reason as others in this thread.

The steps without using Amazon One were

* open the amazon app

* open the checkout thing

* click the QR code button

* click the amazon QR code

* Scan it

* Open Apple Wallet

* Pay

I hope that they will at least add the amazon QR code to apple wallet to make payment faster in store. That or something to make payment (with Amazon Prime link) as fast as with Amazon One even while not continuing Amazon One itself.

I wonder if they could use a NFC tag or something to quickly open the amazon app on your phone to pay or something?

davidmurphy 4 days ago

download the Whole Foods app. It solely exists to display the QR code on startup.

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  • llsf 4 days ago

    But like OP mentioned, you need to reach for your phone, open it, open the app, show the QR code to scan it.

    As opposed to just wave your hand, to get your discounts, pay and get your points.

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ErroneousBosh 4 days ago

Walk me through it.

Why do you have all these steps to pay at a supermarket?

When I am here in the UK, I wave my phone over the card reader, it goes "Pling!" and that's my stuff paid for.

Of course, it's different elsewhere.

When I am over in Austria, I wave my phone over the card reader, it goes "Pling!" and that's my stuff paid for, but this time in Euros, at the going exchange rate.

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  • driverdan 4 days ago

    You don't. As others have pointed out you can pay like normal. Even if you want to get Prime discounts all you need to do is have the card on your Amazon account. No scanning codes or typing in phone numbers is needed.

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    • ErroneousBosh 3 days ago

      So, it's someone making a fuss over their favourite means of handing their biometric data to Evil Megacorp being broken?

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  • vinay427 4 days ago

    In the US, you also wave your phone over the card reader, it goes "Pling!" and that's your stuff paid for. The GP comment is not about paying (although it can do that too [1]), but rather about providing their Amazon account details for Amazon Prime discounts and other benefits.

    A similar process is the case in the UK as well at Amazon Fresh stores, last I checked.

    [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

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    • ErroneousBosh 3 days ago

      There aren't any Amazon Fresh stores in the UK, are there?

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      • vinay427 2 days ago

        There were apparently 19 (I had only been to 4-5), but apparently they closed a month ago roughly in line with the closures in the US.

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        • ErroneousBosh a day ago

          Looking online they appear to have all been in London, which isn't really "stores in the UK". It's barely within a day's drive of where I'm sitting.

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nickorlow 4 days ago

Can they not just associate your debit/credit card w/ your account?

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  • jabroni_salad 4 days ago

    Right.... every independent coffee shop I go to is able to credit me a loyalty point when I hit their toast terminal with google wallet. If I am filling up at Shell I get my points as long as I use the linked credit card. Any other experience is an unforced error.

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