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Walmart doesn't let you use Apple pay or Android pay so instead of adding a way for customers to use these popular mobile payments Walmart is rolling out its own system and it's called you guessed it Walmart pay unlike the Apple and Android options Walmart pay does not use NFC from your phone and there's no fingerprint scanning security protection built into the process instead when you're checking out you have to pull out your phone to take a picture of a QR code on a screen at the checkout line and after you're done scanning your items the order is charged to the card you have on file with the app QR codes what is this 2009 Walmart has been testing this out for about six months but it's officially launching to almost 600 stores now across Texas and Arkansas more states are coming soon with a nationwide launch plan by Midway this year it seems Walmart hopes this is going to keep you coming to Walmart by making it a little faster to get through the checkout line but having customers learn to use another payment app with a QR code doesn't seem that much faster or easier than just swiping your credit card that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash