(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)

We’re conference from people at check-out counters via the nation which profitable with your phone is a small similar to magic. Just demeanour at the overjoyed greeting on the faces of the friends who done their initial Google Wallet purchases final Thursday.

Today, the partners American Eagle Outfitters, The Container Store, Foot Locker, Guess, Jamba Juice, Macy’s, OfficeMax and Toys“R”Us have been rolling out an even softened Google Wallet experience. For the initial time ever in the U.S., at these name stores, we can not only compensate though additionally set free coupons and/or consequence rewards points—all with a singular daub of your phone. This is what we call the Google Wallet SingleTap experience.

With Google Wallet in hand, we can travel in to a Jamba Juice, American Eagle Outfitters or any alternative partner store. Once you’ve systematic which Razzmatazz smoothie or found the right tone Slim Jean, conduct true to the assistant and daub your phone to compensate and save—that’s it. You don’t have to trifle around to find the right banking to indicate or rewards label to stamp since it all happens in the wink of an eye.

The Offers add-on in Google Wallet has been updated to embody a latest “Featured Offers” territory with discounts which have been disdainful to Google Wallet. Today, these embody 15% off at American Eagle Outfitters, 10% off at The Container Store, 15% off at Macy’s and an all-fruit smoothie for $ 2 at Jamba Juice. There have been most some-more Google Wallet disdainful discounts to come, and we can save your favorites in Google Wallet so they’ll be automatically practical to your check when we check out.

Organizing faithfulness cards in your wallet is removing simpler too. Today, Foot Locker, Guess, OfficeMax and American Eagle Outfitters have been on condition that faithfulness cards for Google Wallet so we can shelve up prerogative points automatically as we shop. More of these have been on the way.

One some-more thing—in reply to user feedback, we’ve softened contract sum for the Google Prepaid Card with real-time contract report together with businessman name, location, dollar worth and time of any transaction. Here’s what it looks like:

Finally, a special interjection to Chevron, D’Agostino, Faber News Now, Gristedes Supermarkets and Pinkberry who have been right away additionally operative to supply their stores to accept Google Wallet.

It’s still early days for Google Wallet, though this is an critical step in expanding the ecosystem of participating merchants to have selling faster and simpler in some-more places. If you’re a businessman and wish to work with us to have selling simpler for your business and bond with them in latest ways, greatfully pointer up on the Google Wallet site. And if you’re a shopper and wish to squeeze a Nexus S 4G phone from Sprint with Google Wallet, revisit this page.