The first gas station chain that offers Apple Pay/Android Pay as a payment instrument gets 100% of my business. I'm really hoping Costco will enable the contactless payments on their pumps sooner rather than later.
I've noticed that Chevron is updating a lot of their pumps to have an Apple Pay/Android Pay option. In my experience with the two stations I use regularly is that the pump I choose has a 50% chance of working. But the annoyance is worth the security of not using my card.
The new gas station near my house does contactless. I think that now that the credit card networks are pushing liability onto the merchants we will start to see more and more of these popping up.
Heh unfortunately gas station pumps are exempt from the immediate liability shift and get an extension (https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/security/emv-at-the-pum...) which means this will be a prime attack vector as the shift changes over the next few years.
A lot of the new Gilbarco 700 series are coming with them. We're looking at them now and are wanting to get them. Most of the Gilbarco 500 and series 700 can be updated to have them.
IIRC, when I lived on the East Coast in the 90's, Exxon was a pioneer with contactless payments. They had a little round thing that looked like a quarter of a pencil that you could put on your keychain to make payments at the pump.
Tried this last month, and it totally didn't worked. Tried 3 times and even went in to the cashier twice, who tried to figure it out. Never got it working.
