{"id":379872,"date":"2026-08-24T17:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379872\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:44:12","slug":"walmart-finally-bringing-tap-to-pay-to-tampa-bay-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379872\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Finally Bringing Tap-to-Pay to Tampa Bay Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walmart and Sam\u2019s Club will begin accepting tap-to-pay at select stores Aug. 24, starting a rollout that will bring contactless payments to every U.S. location by year\u2019s end. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walmart has not identified which Tampa Bay locations are included in the first wave. The company plans to extend tap-to-pay to its fuel stations by mid-2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The terminals will accept eligible contactless credit and debit cards, phones and smartwatches. Customers can also use eligible Walmart, Sam\u2019s Club and OnePay cards stored in digital wallets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tap-to-pay will join existing payment options, including Walmart Pay and Sam\u2019s Club Scan &amp; Go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walmart operates 4,615 stores and 602 Sam\u2019s Clubs in the U.S., meaning the rollout will eventually bring tap-to-pay in more than 5,200 locations. The company employs about 1.6 million people in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new payment option arrives as Walmart\u2019s online <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/category\/business-news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"16\" title=\"business\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">business<\/a> continues to grow faster than its overall U.S. sales. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walmart U.S. e-commerce sales increased 24% in the quarter ended July 31, driven largely by store-fulfilled delivery, while total Walmart U.S. net sales increased 3.5% to $125.2 billion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam\u2019s Club U.S. e-commerce sales rose 26% during the same quarter, with pickup and delivery accounting for most of the increase.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walmart and Sam\u2019s Club will begin accepting tap-to-pay at select stores Aug. 24, starting a rollout that will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-379872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}