Asda has 626 stores across the UK and according to MacRumors has recently confirmed on Twitter that they are trialling in a few Asda stores the mobile payments service, remaining unclear if the testing will lead to a wider rollout in the future.
Moreover, a few Asda customers have recently tweeted about the newly enabled Apple Pay support at superstore locations in Aberdeen, Scotland and Ferring, a small village located about 60 miles southwest from London, England.
In 1999, Asda was purchased by Walmart, which recently completed a nationwide launch of its own QR code-based mobile payments solution Walmart Pay in the United States. Walmart was initially committed to the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) consortium and its now indefinitely postponed payments service CurrentC.
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