CVS, one of the nation’s largest retail chains in the US, has given up on its own mobile payment solution in favor of industry-standard mobile payments.
CVS announced today that it now accepts contactless NFC payments using Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay at all locations. It was among the last major national chains to resist standard NFC payment platforms.
The company will retire its CVS Pay app on October 15th. CVS previously accepted Apple Pay, but disabled support in 2014 so it it could develop CVS Pay, which launched in 2016.
Apple announced just a few weeks ago that Apple Pay support was expanding this year to CVS, 7-Eleven, and Costco.
