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Walmart shopper abandons cart and leaves checkout line over payment issue – he couldn’t even swipe his card [Video]

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WALMART shoppers are slamming the retailer for refusing to allow a popular payment method in-stores and online.

Despite increasing customer backlash, Walmart still won’t let shoppers use tap-to-pay to make their shopping trips more convenient.

A shopper uses a self-checkout kiosk at a Hallandale, Florida Walmart storeCredit: Alamy
The entrance to a Walmart department store in Prince Frederick, Maryland, taken on December 1, 2023Credit: Getty

Customers nationwide have started to share their checkout woes on social media, revealing that they’ve abandoned their carts and taken their business elsewhere.

“Abandoned my cart at the checkout at @Walmart as my chip wouldn’t cooperate with the POS and the reader refused to take a swipe,” Adam Heeger, also known as @aheeger, shared on X.

While Walmart’s website does list debit and credit cards as acceptable methods of payment, some customers have noticed that there are still some caveats to the rule.

Walmart remains one of the last major retailers to …

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