CVS (drugstore chain) and Walgreens were among the first major U.S. merchants to accept Alipay via QR code payments, allowing Chinese consumers (and anyone with Alipay) to pay at these stores.

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mystraline 9 hours ago | parent [-]

This person is correct.

I pay for 2 servers running in Asia under Alibaba, using my local CVS drugstore. Im in the Midwest USA. Not a single problem at all.

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oefrha 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hmm I have a couple Alibaba Cloud servers located in CN Hangzhou region and I just pay with my U.S. credit card, no Alipay needed. alibabacloud.com is meant for international customers anyway. I’m not sure if aliyun.com accepts international CCs, maybe you’re using that.

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chrononaut 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sorry, I am not familiar with Alipay, at least in the use case you're referring to; How do you exactly pay for 2 servers using Alipay from a CVS?

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mystraline 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I can load US dollars I hand over to the CVS attendant and load it on my AliPay (Alibaba account).

I can then pay my Alibaba server bills with Alipay.

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DANmode 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Is there an intermediary?

The cash doesn’t go directly from CVS to AliPay, right?

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nemomarx 6 hours ago | parent [-]

CVS also accepts alipay as a payment method, so they must have some kind of direct partnership. I don't see why they'd need an intermediary, although maybe they take the cash and just credit alipay some balance etc.

	▲	DANmode 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Super interesting and unexpected! Thanks (to all!).