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21 Nov, 2014

Apple Pay in Manhattan and the Bay Area

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Starting today, Sephora accepts Apple Pay in all their Bay Area stores and the Lexington location in Manhattan. Sephora CMO Julie Bornstein:

We’ve actually looked for a mobile payments solution for a long time but of course it needs to be something that is already widely adopted and Apple Pay provides that.

Discrimination lawsuit

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Sephora faces a lawsuit claiming discrimination against Asian customers following a 20% sale during which customers with Chinese names or Chinese email domains were blocked from their accounts. An unnamed Sephora spokeswoman:

This lawsuit significantly distorts the facts in this matter. We look forward to defending our actions in court. Among other points, we intend to make very clear that clients from a number of countries around the world have been impacted by a temporary block we needed to place on accounts in order to restore the functionality of our site during a surge of activity by resellers during a promotional event two weeks ago.