Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:40:31 on Tue, 1 Aug
2017, d remarked:
The "inside" isn't manned 24x7. And thanks for confirming my impression
that there's a breed of tech geek who thinks one minor improvement is
justifiable, how ever many negative consequences it has. (And no,
talking to humans isn't one of those - the human's barcode reader
struggled to read the new fob too, increasing the length of the queue).
So pay by card or cash, whats the problem?
Do keep up; it's their *loyalty* card, not a payment card.
Fair enough.
Tesco have their own bank
The shop people claim the ATMs are "nothing to do with us", so it could
be a branding thing like Virgin Trains being nothing to do with Virgin
Bank.
Not so: both the stores and bank are wholly owned by Tesco plc, but are run
separately. Probably for security reasons, the store staff won't have
anything to do with operating the ATMs.
however so it wouldn't be beyond the realms of
possibilty for them to have to release a smart card/fob for payment.
I have always thought they should have a combined Credit/Loyalty card.
Maybe there's some regulatory issue with it.
Tesco had the same idea a long time ago, and Tesco Bank has been issuing
combined credit and loyalty cards for a couple of decades; they seem to be
advertised at every checkout. I'm amazed you've missed them!
https://www.uswitch.com/credit-cards...es/tesco-bank/
http://uk.creditcards.com/tesco.php
http://www.moneysupermarket.com/credit-cards/tesco/
http://www.tescobank.com/credit-cards/