It is Friday and Fridays are for fun . . and for work too. I have been using Samsung Pay for a few months now and I have to say it works most of the time which is impressive. It is an app on my phone that stores credit, debit and gift cards and it works with most any cash register that has a card reader. Most merchants don’t understand it at all and tell me that it won’t work. Sometimes I ask them if they mind if I try it, other times I use it before they can stop me.
They tell me to put my phone over the part of the terminal that works with Apple pay instead of placing it near the card reader where all the magic happens. They almost always tell me I am doing it wrong.
In some stores I am told “we don’t accept Apple pay”. I usually respond with O.K. and use my phone to pay for my purchase, which isn’t at all the same as using Apple pay. Often persons operating the cash registers tell me that the cash registers are not set up to work with phones. I use it anyway and it works. Using my phone makes spending money faster and easier than ever before and I am kind of used to being told it won’t work, and I don’t even look up or listen when they tell me where to put my phone.
When it doesn’t work I am not really sure why but I have my suspicions. I even used Samsung pay at a vending machine at a rest stop in Iowa and it worked. I remember way back when not every store accepted credit cards and I had to carry a check book with me. Maybe as the technology becomes more accepted I won’t have to carry my wallet with me anymore.
