Pharmacy retailers Rite Aid and CVS have both announced that they've disabled their near field communication payment systems, thereby also disabling both Apple Pay and Google Wallet.
No one is saying why officially, but some experts speculated that it's because Apple Pay poses a threat to CurrentC, a mobile payment scheme being developed by a retail consortium called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX.
The exchange is headed by Wal-Mart and includes Best Buy, Old Navy and Target, among others.
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