On 01.08.2017 4:54 PM, 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.
Some time ago, I was involved in aquiring a company that managed a
combined-loyalty-and-credit-card scheme; the credit card was issued by one
of the US banks that heavily got involved in the UK market through its own
brand but mainly through co-branding. Let's say "Mainly Branded but Not
Always."
It was one of those "the assets are worth more than the business"
acquisitions, so the main job was to wind up the operations in the most
orderly fashion possible. Which delighted me, when I discovered that the
"IT integration" consisted of said US bank *emailing* the complete account
information (card numbers, addresses, card activity etc.) once a week, as
an Excel spreadsheet.
Without so much as a password on the Excel to provide a figleaf of
security...