In 2014 Patently Apple posted a report titled "Merchants Going to War with Apple Pay will Lose." CVS was one of the merchants who locked Apple Pay out. Four years later, it's a different story.

USA Today is reporting that "You'll soon be able to use your iPhone or Apple Watch to pay for prescriptions at CVS or a Slurpee at 7-Eleven. The two previous retail holdouts will start rolling out support nationwide for the the Apple Pay mobile payments system in the fall. Apple CEO Tim Cook made the announcement during an earnings call Tuesday with investors.

Apple Pay continues to gain momentum. It is in use by tens of millions of customers daily, Apple says, with 'well over'\" one billion Apple Pay transactions completed during the June quarter, more than triple the number during the same period a year ago. And Apple Pay now has more than 4,900 banking partners in 24 global markets, with another overseas market, Germany added soon.

For its part, CVS says about 7,800 stand-alone pharmacies will accept Apple Pay, quite a turnaround from Oct 2014, when the drugstore chain stopped accepting Apple Pay payments, over a conflict at the time with another mobile payments system called CurrentC, that eventually failed before it ever really got going.

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