WOW Tom, it's so good it knows where the business are going to be before they 
exist!   

John

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> On Jan 5, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Careful with Payfinders. It shows three places that accept it within 8 miles 
> of my house and none even exist on the island. Hotel Molokai is there but no 
> Tantes. I walked down and they never heard of Apple Pay. 
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> 
>> On Jan 3, 2016, at 2:12 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> O.K., it’s an obsession, when news like this hits I have to get it 
>> out…inquiring minds want to know and so do the merchants.  I will send this 
>> to a few businesses after I send to my groups.   I have almost totally 
>> stopped shopping at Kroger as Meijer accepts ApplePay and Kroger doesn’t.  
>> There are two terminals at Panera Bread that accept ApplePay, the third 
>> doesn’t so I will wait if the next opening is at the register that hasnt’ 
>> been configured for our secure payment system…it’s a great way to let the 
>> merchants know we are serious about their adoption.
>> 
>> If interested there is a new App that will help us find shops that accept 
>> our payment of choice, it seems it’s being well accepted and immediately 
>> generating a large number of users…More descriptive info. is below the story 
>> from the App I just downloaded.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> New PayFinders app for locating Apple Pay merchants reports 750% increase in 
>> users in two days
>> 
>> A new app designed to crowdsource an interactive map of businesses that 
>> accept Apple Pay just reported adding 12,673 new merchants in North America, 
>> 95 percent of them being small businesses. In parallel, its developer 
>> reported that the new app's users have increased an incredible 750 percent 
>> over the past two days, indicating a lot of interest in Apple Pay.
>> 
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>> 
>> PayFinders helps users locate merchants who accept Apple Pay
>> 
>> 
>> Brian Roemmele, the PayFinder app's creator, announced the jump in Apple Pay 
>> interest on Twitter earlier today, observing that "Christmas was good to the 
>> iPhone 6 series and Apple Pay adoption." On Christmas Day, Roemmele had 
>> earlier noted that 'indirect activation data suggested that the Target and 
>> BestBuy $100 off Apple Watch promotion may have doubled [the number of Apple 
>> Watch] devices in use.'
>> 
>> Apple is quickly expanding Apple Pay's reach beyond the U.S., with the 
>> service launching in the UK in June and more recently in Canada and 
>> Australia last month. It is expected to begin operating in China early in 
>> 2016.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I downloaded the app and here is what it gave me within 13 miles of my 
>> location…Awesome!
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> To get a list I find the closest at the top of the list
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> By zooming in near my location the stores nearby are shown in greater 
>> detail….
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This is going to be helpful, and something Apple should have included within 
>> their Maps app from the beginning…..
>> 
>> 
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