Alipay Now Accepted at Every Walgreens in America

Walgreens has announced that all of its US locations will now accept Alipay’s mobile payment platform. Alipay is already available at US cities such as New York, San Francisco and Las Vegas and by April, Alipay will be available at more than 7,000 Walgreens locations across the country. Walgreens is the largest U.S. drugstore chain to use Alipay. The Alipay collaboration will make Walgreens more attractive to the four million Chinese travelers who are in the U.S at any given time. For outbound Chinese travelers, using Alipay provides a potential economic savings as credit cards typically have higher foreign transaction fees. This announcement builds on last year’s partnership announcement between Walgreens Boots Alliance and Alibaba Group, an affiliate of Ant Financial Services Group.