"tim......" wrote

especially foreigners

I wouldn't be so sure.

Well I'll ask a bunch of then when I go back to the office tomorrow :-)

I can't be sure that it isn't my lack of observation, but I haven't seen
any
opportunities to pay with a contactless card here, so I'm not expecting a
large positive response

I noticed that Aldi, Lidl and M&S have rolled it out.

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/companies...348506.article

And on being reminded, I noticed the change in Waitrose too.

http://www.theukcardsassociation.org...ontactless.asp
http://www.contactless.info/updateonukrollout.asp

I first used a contactless card (MC credit) to buy a coffee at the RFH, but
I don't see the few seconds saved as of any significance. It might be of
some benefit when a whole host of people were buying the same thing and
nothing else.

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Mike D