Your Amazon Account Is All You Need To Pay At Retail Shops

by MR Magazine Staff

If you’ve ever wished you could use your Amazon account at physical stores (outside of Amazon’s), we’ve got good news. The internet giant is trotting out a Pay Places feature that expands Amazon Pay to make purchases at brick-and-mortar shops. So long as you have Amazon’s mobile app, you can order ahead using an online account you’ve likely had for years. The feature is only available at TGI Friday’s restaurants in the US right now, and then only in a handful of cities (Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Richmond, Washington DC and Wilkes-Barre). It’ll take a long while before you can regularly lean on your Amazon account for your weekly shopping routine. Read more at Engadget.