Walmart Pay Now Available at All Walmart Stores
CurrentC may be dead, but retail giant Walmart isn’t giving up on the dream of a mobile payment system that doesn’t involve Apple or Google. Walmart’s proprietary Walmart Pay system is now accepted at more than 4600 Walmart stores in the United States. Like CurrentC, Walmart Pay relies on scanned QR codes for transactions instead of NFC, but instead of linking directly to a checking account, it can connect to a credit or debit card or a Walmart gift card. We hope Walmart Pay will be more secure than CurrentC, but it’s hard to imagine it becoming a viable competitor to Apple Pay without support from other retailers.
Apple Pay doesn't take a cut of what Walmart would receive, but a cut of what the bank would receive. Walmart gets the same amount with or without Apple Pay.