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Block, the corporate name for Square, experienced outages that disrupted some of its services. As a result, Block's stock fell nearly 5% on Friday, marking its third consecutive day of declines and putting it on track for its lowest close since October.
Square, the online payment platform, is experiencing a widespread outage, causing multiple service disruptions and impacting balance and transfers. Users across several markets have reported problems using the platform, with some stores only able to accept cash transactions. Square's engineering team is actively working on a fix, while its phone line remains down. The payment service Cash App is also reporting an outage.
Walmart continues to resist Apple Pay and instead pushes its own Walmart Pay platform, which relies on QR codes. Kroger's recent decision to adopt Apple Pay has put pressure on Walmart to do the same, but the company has not responded to requests for comment. Walmart claims that Walmart Pay is more popular than Apple Pay, but frustrated shoppers have taken to social media to express their desire for the contactless payment option. Other notable chains that still don't support Apple Pay include Home Depot and H-E-B.