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tim... · August 1st 17, 05:06 PM posted to uk.transport.london

"Richard J." wrote in message
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Roland Perry wrote on 01 Aug 2017 at 14:54 ...
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.

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.
John Lewis manage to have a credit card with a reward scheme that favours
purchases in John Lewis and Waitrose, so there's evidently no regulatory
issue with that. However they also have a separate loyalty card for John
Lewis, and yet another one for Waitrose ("My Waitrose"). So full loyalty
to the John Lewis group implies three cards in your wallet. :-(

and an emptier wallet than other people

tim