COVID-19 isn't easily transmitted by physical touch, as we've known for some time now. But we didn't know that early in the pandemic, so many businesses sought to contain viral spread via contactless ...

A major high street chain has suffered a widespread outage, leaving customers unable to pay for items with contactless payments. Marks & Spencer has apologised after furious shoppers demanded answers ...

Budget hotel chain Travelodge is considering expanding its self-service hotel concept across more locations. In these hotels, you never actually have to speak to a single person. The company launched ...

A significant alteration that could affect shoppers in supermarkets and other retail outlets across the UK has been scheduled ...

A whopping 18.3 billion contactless payments were made in the UK back in 2023, a seven per cent increase compared to the year before. Data from UK Finance shows contactless payments represented 38 per ...

THE days of standing in line to get your hands on your favourite ice-cream might be numbered. Barclaycard is testing a self-serving ice-cream, which allows customers to pour their own ice-cream in ...

Changes to paper ticketing time restrictions to align with Transport for London’s contactless structure mean services that ...

We live in a contactless society where we are supposed to get ‘customer service’ but do we really get customer service where there is no contact? I am not sure we do. Did you know with a Digital ...

‘Contactless Mobile’ builds upon the functionality launched to Barclaycard customers earlier this year and sees Barclays become the first UK bank to offer its own, integrated service enabling ...

After being introduced in 2007 starting at £10, the contactless card payment transaction limit has been raised over time to £15 in 2010, £20 in 2012, £30 in 2015, £45 in 2020, and £100 in October 2021 ...

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