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"Kroger Pay is one of the few mobile wallets that pairs loyalty and payment," said Mary Ellen Adcock, Kroger's vice president of operations. "The application of this exciting technology is another step in our front-end experience transformation."

Apple may have better luck winning retailers over if they can find a way to combine loyalty and payment in to Apple Pay.

wood1208 said:

Apple,you are business and while holding privacy Ethics torch, at the end of day you are a business to make money for shareholders and employees.  Stop this die-hard privacy triumph. Most people outside USA(may be some Europeans) don't even care privacy long as you sell your products and services cheap. Sorry, Money talks,walks, and everything else for most people in world...

How many people on Apple products related websites like Apple-insider,9to5Mac,MacRumers,etc come and say give me privacy at any cost ? Most say, Apple products are expensive even thought they like to own.

Both Google and Facebook should know better.  This violates Apple's privacy policy and may have allowed use of private APIs that could contribute to stability of users devices.  Certainly other companies should not be praised for violating EULAs.

It’s time to end software and business practice patents.  They do more harm then good.

The 512 GB model appears to be the most constrained.  I put my order in immediately after pre-orders started and have a 3 week delay.

This is a good example as to why software patents should not be allowed at least 99% of the time.  All of the work is in the implementation.  The idea is generally some arrangement of fundamental algorithms that would take an engineer or lawyer a few days to put together.  The implementation can take years.  Copyright law is much more appropriate.  Additionally, when you have a patent holding company that doesn't actually make anything the Cold War scenario where software companies don't want to sue each other over trivial patents no longer works.  Moreover software companies don't want to look like the bully, so they generally only sue if things escalated pretty far.  A patent holding company has nothing to lose, so it is like giving nukes to a mad man.  There is no reasoning with them, they are ready to push the button.  This might as well be intellectual property terrorism.  We really need the patent system fixed.  Ideally retroactively.