McDonald's, PayPal join forces for mobile payment test
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Soon you might be able to buy your burgers without looking up from your phone-- which is what you are doing as you wait in line anyway.
McDonalds is reportedly offering a test trial at 30 McDonald’s locations in France where customers can place their order via mobile phone, tablet or desktop computer on a McDonald's mobile application and pay for it using eBay's payment arm, PayPal. Reuters reports that once a customer gets to the restaurant, there is a separate line in the test locations for meal pick ups, presumably cutting down on wait times.
The concept was demonstrated at a McDonald's conference in Orlando, Florida, earlier this year as part of a booth featuring technolog expected to go live in the next couple of years, Reuters reports.
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McDonald’s is not the first major chain to experiment with mobile checkout. Starbucks recently joined forces with start-up technology company Square Inc. to work out its mobile payment system. Merchant Customer Exchange, which includes big names such as Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy, is working to develop a smartphone app that will allow customers to pay for their cart loads on their phones.