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[email protected] · August 2nd 17, 12:51 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (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.

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.

Apart from Tesco in fact doing it as mentioned below, Sainsbury have a
combined credit and Nectar card too.

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Colin Rosenstiel