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Apple Pay support for JCPenney store cards in testing with spring 2016 rollout goal

JCPenney is following the lead set by Kohl’s and testing Apple Pay support for its store credit cards, according to a new report.

JCP shoppers in Texas are being added to a pilot program that allows them to set up their store cards on their mobile devices for use in stores. The program seems to be limited to only one store at the moment, with a full rollout planned for spring 2016.

Customers included in the trial will see the following notice when adding their card to Apple Pay:

JCPenney is running a pilot program available to cardholders residing in Dallas Ft. Worth and shopping at The Village at Fairview store. Cardholders nationwide will be able to add their JCPenney credit cards to their Wallets and pay using Apple Pay in spring 2016.

Apple first debuted support for store credit cards in Apple Pay as part of the iOS 9 software update in September. Only a few days ago, Kohl’s became the first retailer to enable this feature for its cards.

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  1. tomricket - 8 years ago

    I thought I read that Walgreens already did this? I followed instructions to add my Walgreens card to Wallet (or whatever it’s called now), and linked it internally to a payment source … is that different, I suppose, than a fully self-contained card?

    • AbsarokaSheriff - 8 years ago

      Yes, it is different. Kohl’s and JC Penney are payments cards with loyalty tied in. To get all of the benefits of shopping at Kohl’s, JC Penney you need to use their cards. Walgreens (Balance Rewards) is loyalty/rewards only and not payment. The rewards you get are independent of payer and you can use any Apple Pay credit card they accept or regular payment methods.

      With Kohls/JC Penney you get bills directly from them.

      • tomricket - 8 years ago

        Thanks; that makes sense. I don’t have either Kohl’s or JC Penny cards, so I can’t test any of it directly. I’m very happy to finally see things moving more quickly in this direction, though (and away from those terrible ideas like CurrentC, or whatever it was called).

  2. cydia1tweaks - 8 years ago

    Unfortunately apple pay service did not support my country so far :(

  3. calisurfboy - 8 years ago

    Will JCPenny still be open? I thought they were on the list of companies at risk for bankruptcy and liquidation for post-2015 holidays.

  4. Philip Cohen - 8 years ago

    Who cares anyway? Not even the Apple faithful, apparently; in the US, only ~5% of those Apple users that have had the opportunity to use Apple Pay, have done so; and on Black Friday that usage was down to <3%—LOL …

    Apple Pay—a solution to a problem that does not exist …

    • JBDragon - 8 years ago

      Considering I’ve had fraud on my Credit card 3 years straight, yes there’s a problem! It would also be nice if I didn’t have to carry around a bunch of cards. It’s also fast. On the Apple Watch is really simple!!! I use it as much as possible, but so few places have support still which is the biggest problem. Then again this transitional period we are in right now is going so slow. My cards still haven’t been replaced with the CHIP in them yet!!! Everyone seems to be really dragging their feet.

      It took YEARS before there were credit card terminals everywhere. I still Remember where I used to work at a Tire & Muffler shop they using a Manual Credit Card Machine and Carbon paper. Stick the Credit on on top, then the Paper and run the roller over it. That’s why Credit Cards to this day still have the Raised Numbers. That would show up on the Carbon Paper. Now trying to get everyone to update once again, that takes time. Fraud though is out of control. Apple Pay is the Solution. Not only the solution from fraud, the the solution from being tracked!!!

      • tomricket - 8 years ago

        I have to agree with you — I was skeptical of NFC early on, until I investigated it more to find out exactly how it worked. Right now, both the speed and security of Apple Pay (or Android Pay, or other tokenized NFC system) seems vastly superior to anything else out there, not just the old, fraud-prone style, but the slow (so far?) chip-and-pin behavior, as well. I’ll be very interested to see how this all falls out once retailers finish upgrading their terminals in the next 12 months or so.

      • Philip Cohen - 8 years ago

        You, of course are using a Stone Age “swipe” card—easily cloned, apparently; I, on the other hand, have been using an EMV card for the past 10 years or so and have never had a successful fraud on my card (EMV or earlier); only one attempt from the UAE which was intercepted by my issuing bank; regardless, these less sophisticated types of fraud will ultimately be defeated when the card account numbers are eventually made non-operational across the board and now that EMV transactions use one-off “tokens”; the reality is, EMV+PIN cards offer security just as good as Apple Pay …