CVS Pharmacy has announced it will now accept Apple Pay in its stores . This is because CVS was a member of Merchant Customer Exchange, which was behind a proprietary mobile payment format called CurrentC. Companies that adopted CurrentC Despite already having the technology in place to use the service for many years CVS was , until recently , a member of the Merchant Customer Exchange , which promoted the rival service , and shut off NFC terminals to encourage adoption of the service . However , with the technology failing to catch on and then being sold to Apple last year , CVS has now agreed to support Apple 's mobile payment platform .
CVS Pharmacy has announced it will now accept Apple Pay in its stores . Despite already having the technology in place to use the service for many years CVS was , until recently , a member of the Merchant Customer Exchange , which promoted the rival service , and shut off NFC terminals to encourage adoption of the service . However , with the technology failing to catch on and then being sold to Apple last year , CVS has now agreed to support Apple 's mobile payment platform .