Apple Pay and Android Pay coming to Rite Aid

Score another one for Apple Pay.

In fact, Rite Aid’s decision on Tuesday to activate Apple's mobile payment system in all 4,600 of its stores, starting Aug. 15, turns out to be a win for all NFC-based payment systems, including the soon-to-be-retired Google Wallet and its successor, Android Pay.

The ubiquitous U.S. drug store was among those who seemingly rejected Apple Pay last year in favor of the Merchants Customer Exchange (MCX)-backed CurrentC, QR-code-based payment system.

"By accepting mobile payments, we’re able to offer Rite Aid customers an easy and convenient checkout process, which we know is important to them." said Ken Martindale, CEO of Rite Aid stores and president of Rite Aid Corporation, in a release. Read more...