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1. Pharmacy chains CVS and Rite Aid have disabled the use of Apple Pay at their stores, upsetting customers who have adopted the new payment system with Apple's recent iPhone models. 2. CVS and Rite Aid are part of a merchant consortium called the Merchants Customer Exchange (MCX) which is developing their own mobile payment system called CurrentC. 3. Retailers in the MCX represent over $1 trillion in annual sales and see Apple Pay as a threat to their development of CurrentC.

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1. Pharmacy chains CVS and Rite Aid have disabled the use of Apple Pay at their stores, upsetting customers who have adopted the new payment system with Apple's recent iPhone models. 2. CVS and Rite Aid are part of a merchant consortium called the Merchants Customer Exchange (MCX) which is developing their own mobile payment system called CurrentC. 3. Retailers in the MCX represent over $1 trillion in annual sales and see Apple Pay as a threat to their development of CurrentC.

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Assignment 1

Pharmacy chains CVS and Rite Aid have disabled NFC payment types used in the
recently released apple pay. This upset some customers who have adopted apples new iphone
models and wish to use apple pay. A merchant consortium called the Merchants Customer
Exchange, of which CVS and Rite aid are a part of, are developing their own mobile payment
system called CurrentC. Retailers included in the MCX represent more than $1 trillion in annual
sales, according to ZDNet.

I used Google and Bing to search for apple pay blocked, and both engines gave me
very similar results. Inconclusive as to which yields higher quality results.

1.Time when was it written? Has it been updated?


This article, Apple Pay Is Now Blocked At CVS and Rite Aid, was written on October 27th
at 2:12 a.m. It does not seem to have been updated since its publishing.
2. Relevance does it relate to your topic or answer your question?
It is heavily related to the topic of retailers blocking apple pay.
3. Authority who is the author(s)? Are they qualified to write about this topic? How do
you know?
The authors name is Amit Chowdhry. According to the pop out bio tab, he is qualified to
write on this subject.
4. Accurate is the information trustworthy? Is it supported by evidence? Has it been
tested for accuracy?
Yes, much if not all of the information in the article is verifiable through a trip to CVS or
by looking at the retailers webpages. There is some speculation included in the article about the
intent of different retailers and their consortium.
5. Purpose why was it written, to inform, sell, persuade? Is there a bias or is the material
objective?
Apple Pay Is Now Blocked At CVS and Rite Aid was written to inform the readers about
the launch of apple pay, and one of the large hurdles it faces. There does not seem to be a bias, I
would judge the material as objective.

Keywords for Library articles


-NFC payment
-Apple Pay
-MCX
-Apple pay MCX (Yielded best results)

I used the ProQuest database for two reasons. The first is that it was on the most popular
databases list. When I clicked on it to look further, I noticed a technology tab, which related
heavily to the searches Id be doing. The results that this database yielded were excellent.
The article Apple Pay Runs Afoul of MCX, a Group With a Rival Product is very timely
in regards to the topic; the article is only 2 days old. Mike Isaacs article was very easy for me to
obtain through the ProQuest database. Without access to the ProQuest database it would also
have been easy to obtain through the New York times website. The author, Mike Isaac, has
written many tech articles published on the Times website. I think that this is enough to make
him credible in the field of tech journalism.
Works Cited
Chowdhry, A. (2014, October 27). Apple Pay Is Now Blocked At CVS and Rite Aid. Retrieved
from Fobes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/10/27/apple-pay-is-nowblocked-at-cvs-and-rite-aid/
Isaac, M. (2014, October 28). Apple Pay Runs Afoul of MCX, a Group With a Rival Product.
Retrieved from New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/technology/apple-pay-runs-afoul-of-arival.html?_r=0
Steinmetz, K. (2014, October 28). Apple Pay Blocked at CVS, Rite Aid. Retrieved from Yahoo!
Fnance: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-pay-blocked-cvs-rite-045451679.html
Isaac, M. (2014, Oct 28). 2 merchants opt out of apple pay after a week. International New York
Times Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1616556287?accountid=3784
Krause, R. (2014, Mar 21). Apple, MCX: Mobile wallet friends, foes or frenemies? Investor's
Business Daily Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1509131283?accountid=3784

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