Stores that DON'T accept contactless payments - name and shame!

Basil1234

just spoken to asda house they had 25 on inital rollout and now upto 43, was told they rollout for my superstore fareham they have NO plans for now or in any future to do so!

by the way this has taken 4 years from inital rollout from 25 to 43 stores was told is down to licenesing cost!

more like its too costly also since the new the £30 limit sales have reported to treble and yet they have no plans

also to be fair i contacted tesco asked same questions they told me have in a few stores and plan to do a few smaller stores but no big planned rollout.

It would seem in this day and age its to costly to give new technology ago, you think they would all at least have on there basket tills where would make greatest difference.

intresting facts below
contactless payments make up 10% of all £20-30
average monthly growth rate of 19.1% of transations of £20-30
contactless payments overall up 237% between march and oct

http://www.retail-week.com/technology/contactless-payments-treble-following-introduction-of-30-spending-limit/7006286.fullarticle

the supermarkets moan of poor growth, most people don't buy there dinner till that day. you would have thought supermarkets would try speed things up when you want to get in and get out and reduce till queues with contactless!

shame martin cant write to all supermarkets and explain a few of these points to the CEOs of the big 4 and see what they have to say!

basil :money:

20aday

Basil1234 wrote: »

just spoken to asda house they had 25 on inital rollout and now upto 43, was told they rollout for my superstore fareham they have NO plans for now or in any future to do so!

by the way this has taken 4 years from inital rollout from 25 to 43 stores was told is down to licenesing cost!

more like its too costly also since the new the £30 limit sales have reported to treble and yet they have no plans

also to be fair i contacted tesco asked same questions they told me have in a few stores and plan to do a few smaller stores but no big planned rollout.

It would seem in this day and age its to costly to give new technology ago, you think they would all at least have on there basket tills where would make greatest difference.

intresting facts below
contactless payments make up 10% of all £20-30
average monthly growth rate of 19.1% of transations of £20-30
contactless payments overall up 237% between march and oct

http://www.retail-week.com/technology/contactless-payments-treble-following-introduction-of-30-spending-limit/7006286.fullarticle

the supermarkets moan of poor growth, most people don't buy there dinner till that day. you would have thought supermarkets would try speed things up when you want to get in and get out and reduce till queues with contactless!

shame martin cant write to all supermarkets and explain a few of these points to the CEOs of the big 4 and see what they have to say!

basil :money:

I know some of the discounters (Aldi, Lidl) accept contactless payments. If they can do it then some of the more established supermarkets should sit up and take notice.

Sainsbury's (according to their Twitter feed) are updating the POS software come May. That should lead to contactless payments being enabled.

My nearest Sainsbury's and Asda have Ingenico terminals capable of NFC transactions.

prowla

Basil1234 wrote: »

just spoken to asda house they had 25 on inital rollout and now upto 43, was told they rollout for my superstore fareham they have NO plans for now or in any future to do so!

by the way this has taken 4 years from inital rollout from 25 to 43 stores was told is down to licenesing cost!

more like its too costly also since the new the £30 limit sales have reported to treble and yet they have no plans

also to be fair i contacted tesco asked same questions they told me have in a few stores and plan to do a few smaller stores but no big planned rollout.

It would seem in this day and age its to costly to give new technology ago, you think they would all at least have on there basket tills where would make greatest difference.

intresting facts below
contactless payments make up 10% of all £20-30
average monthly growth rate of 19.1% of transations of £20-30
contactless payments overall up 237% between march and oct

http://www.retail-week.com/technology/contactless-payments-treble-following-introduction-of-30-spending-limit/7006286.fullarticle

the supermarkets moan of poor growth, most people don't buy there dinner till that day. you would have thought supermarkets would try speed things up when you want to get in and get out and reduce till queues with contactless!

shame martin cant write to all supermarkets and explain a few of these points to the CEOs of the big 4 and see what they have to say!

basil :money:

I have to say that I don't care about contactless; the time to put your card in and enter your pin is miniscule.

I do "get" contactless like Oyster in the Underground, but otherwise it just seems a non-issue to me.

henm2

I agree. I do use contactless sometimes. I just don't get the demand or need for contactless. Its easy and quick just to tap your pin number in. If a store does not offer contactless payments so what.

djpailo

prowla wrote: »

I have to say that I don't care about contactless; the time to put your card in and enter your pin is miniscule.

I do "get" contactless like Oyster in the Underground, but otherwise it just seems a non-issue to me.

This is simply one of the most illogical posts I've ever read. :huh:

The time you save using contactless payment as opposed to entering your pin is roughly equivalent to the time you save using Oyster (or other forms of contactless) as opposed to paper tickets.

So why you "get it" for using it on the Underground but can't apply similar appreciation for casual payments is very strange indeed! :rotfl:

Biggles

djpailo wrote: »

This is simply one of the most illogical posts I've ever read.

Not really. That small amount of time would make a difference on the tube, where a large number of people are flowing and a small increase in transaction time would slow up the whole system.

But in a shop, you are in the middle of a transaction of some kind and whether you pay by cash, contactless or PIN makes little difference in the overall time taken. I have some contactless cards and some PIN-only but it doesn't matter much to me which I use.

Ballard

I prefer contactless but it's not exactly the end of the world if a store doesn't have it. The main times that it comes in useful are TfL and pubs. If I'm in a supermarket the time difference is negligible but when you're waiting to be served at a bar those few seconds that someone else is paying seem to drag on forever.

I'm speaking as a Londoner and therefore have ample opportunity to use contactless each month for the TSBs fiver. For those who don't have such a chance I can see the frustration.

HornetSaver

In my area (south West Hertfordshire), Sainsbury's don't accept contactless at the main supermarket's quick pay kiosks, Tesco do, and Asda generally do though weirdly some readers don't.

Twice in the last three months I have gotten to payment at Asda, realised I was on a duff reader, and explained to the assistant that I wanted to use a different till so I could get the shopping £1 or so cheaper with contactless - A faff admittedly, but given that I never do food shopping when I'm in a hurry (nothing worse than shopping too quickly and forgetting something you needed to get), that £1 is worth an extra few minutes of my time. The first cashier actually knew why I was doing it and was extremely friendly about the whole thing, the second a bit annoyed that I had called her away, but said she'd do the same thing once I told her that for every £20 I spend on contactless I get £1 back (not entirely accurate if you spend more than £100 on contactless in a month, but honest enough in the circumstances).

I typically shop at Sainsbury's due to better own-brand quality for generally the same price as Asda, though they are doing everything in their power to dissuade my custom (getting rid of price match, lower Nectar rates, fuel often 1.2p higher than the Asda on the same roundabout, no contactless, baskets never at the entrance unless you go first thing in the morning). If it wasn't for the fact that I have to drive four miles each way to the big Tesco yet can walk to Asda or Sainsburys, I'd consider making Tesco my supermarket of choice.

I've yet to find a convenient place to buy fuel that accepts contactless, except for a BP garage that usually charges 5-6p more per litre than Asda and is therefore pointless for contactless cashback purposes.

Naughty spends usually take me over the £100 maximum for TSB Classic plus (though in my defence they are naughty spends I would have made anyway, and that I make less often nowadays than in yesteryear).

Feral_Moon

I must admit that I also prefer contactless especially as I struggle with remembering PINs. Although I've come unstuck once or twice when suddenly being asked to enter PIN as it happens so infrequently that I've almost always forgotten it by then :rotfl:

djpailo

Biggles wrote: »

Not really. That small amount of time would make a difference on the tube, where a large number of people are flowing and a small increase in transaction time would slow up the whole system.

But in a shop, you are in the middle of a transaction of some kind and whether you pay by cash, contactless or PIN makes little difference in the overall time taken. I have some contactless cards and some PIN-only but it doesn't matter much to me which I use.

You opinion is incorrect. If you can save time in a shopping queue, isn't that better than not saving time if that time is substantial? It isn't a small amount of time in a shop that you save, it can and does make people go through the checkouts faster and it is noticeable. A prime example of this is lunch time where people may only have a few items, so the time taken to scan the items is short and comparable to the time taken for payment.

A counter argument can also be made for your argument that its better on the tube. What if I put forward to you that off-peak, the crowds are fewer, so having contactless or paper saves hardly time and is irrelevant to "the overall flow" of passengers?

The point I'm making is that using contactless for shopping is just as beneficial as using it on the tube. Arguments can be made for both cases where it saves considerable time.