londonmidland
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With the advancements of Apple & Android Pay, as well as contactless being the new 'norm', I can't remember the last time I've had to insert my pin into a machine, let alone use physical cash.
Mine is a forest of Wetherspoons & Pret coffee lolI agree, I've even used contactless to pay the 50p for the tyre inflator at the petrol station before. Vending Machines, coffee shops etc. Saves faffing about counting out change, fumbling about putting the change back etc. And at the end of the day everything I paid for is on my bank statement, instead of a series of ATM withdrawals.
Does that line up with you shift times?Mine is a forest of Wetherspoons & Pret coffee lol
My local petrol station has just had new air / water and hoover machines installed, both are now contactless only, as are all of the new vending machines being installed on the GTR network. So much easier than having to try and find some coins that the machine will inevitably reject half of - especially when the only place I use cash is the barbers so tend to have very little in the way of coins these days!I agree, I've even used contactless to pay the 50p for the tyre inflator at the petrol station before. Vending Machines, coffee shops etc. Saves faffing about counting out change, fumbling about putting the change back etc. And at the end of the day everything I paid for is on my bank statement, instead of a series of ATM withdrawals.
Well you must be linked into Cape Canaveral because I've never once got signal in Standedge.
The three devices are connected to EE (TPE) and O2 (personal) networks if that’s any explanation
Most certainly. Every single PNB can be seen.Does that line up with you shift times?
Is that just in Liverpool or NationwideSmall traders often like cash.
Hear hear - I’m still seething at the fact they won’t send a young child up my chimneys anymore to clean them.They'll just be reducing their takings even more ! Trying to buy a can of coke on TPE when the coverage keeps going out in the tunnels is bad enough !
I'm sick of this modern tripe.
Hear hear - I’m still seething at the fact they won’t send a young child up my chimneys anymore to clean them.
It's an extreme endpoint of 'I'm sick of this modern tripe'. Which, incidentally, is very similar to early quotes about the railways...Oh please, how does paying for a kitkat with coinage in any way conflate with sending children up chimneys.......... Unless, is that how Rail Gourmet stores is stock ?
It's an extreme endpoint of 'I'm sick of this modern tripe'. Which, incidentally, is very similar to early quotes about the railways...
Easy Jet and others handle Epos payments at 24.000ft - can't be hard for TOCs to do it at ground level
My solution would be to charge 10% extra for cash payments to cover all the additional costs.
It should be the cash payers paying for it - not the card payers
It's true, modernity is made an excuse for ordinary people to have a worse customer experience. But don't worry, business likes it so it must be better for the customer.
Contactless requires authorisation, whereas Chip & PIN doesn't necessarily, depending if the merchant is willing to take the risk of unpaid transactions. It may therefore be better to do as many of these transactions as C&P to avoid the need for a signal.
I fail to see how payment by card is "a worse customer experience" than payment by cash.
Thus if you think cash is dead think again.
modernity is made an excuse for ordinary people to have a worse customer experience.
This is a VAST overreaction to a non issue! The world has moved on and has been accelerated by the pandemic. You are being left behind. Any issues you have with the situation are of your own making.I don't care about UK societies issues. I care about my issues.
If you want to come up with some half baked argument for not having cash, good for you. Don't expect me to agree.
I agree, I've even used contactless to pay the 50p for the tyre inflator at the petrol station before. Vending Machines, coffee shops etc. Saves faffing about counting out change, fumbling about putting the change back etc. And at the end of the day everything I paid for is on my bank statement, instead of a series of ATM withdrawals.
Gloucester Transport Hub only takes contactless to use the toilets, so my statement is littered with 20p charges. But much better than trying to find 20p each time in coins!
This is a VAST overreaction to a non issue! The world has moved on and has been accelerated by the pandemic. You are being left behind. Any issues you have with the situation are of your own making.
Nonsense. We have s currency for a purpose. It should be available for use.
I'm waiting to start as a Comm Guard for SWR, but the company I currently work for, which has 2500 stores throughout the UK, do not accept credit card payments at all or debit card payments for transactions of less than £5 because, I think, the associated handling charges made by banks dont make it cost effective. I believe that during the pandemic these charges were waived or reduced and we took card payments for any ammount, but this was changed back a week ago.
What are people like me who don't have a contactless card because I've seen how insecure they are, supposed to do, pee up the wall? It's just another example of where technology is being used to control and enslave us under the guise of making things "easier"Gloucester Transport Hub only takes contactless to use the toilets, so my statement is littered with 20p charges. But much better than trying to find 20p each time in coins!
What are people like me who don't have a contactless card because I've seen how insecure they are, supposed to do, pee up the wall?
What are people like me who don't have a contactless card because I've seen how insecure they are, supposed to do, pee up the wall? It's just another example of where technology is being used to control and enslave us under the guise of making things "easier"
And everyone allowing this two tier society is guilty of allowing governments and big businesses to control themYou've made a conscious decision to not use a contactless card and therefore limiting yourself in the process. It's certainly more secure than carrying cash.