This is reminding me of the heady days of the early 2010s when Byres Road in Glasgow had three branches of Santander within about 50m of each other. Looking at Street View, the former Bradford & Bingley was gone by 2012, but the ex-Alliance & Leicester lasted until 2019. (The Abbey branch r...

If your phone had been a Samsung and had failed in a similar way, you would have almost certainly had to send it away. At least Apple has a network of stores in fairly easy reach. Really? I live close to Nottingham, which has no Samsung store. When my Galaxy S9+'s USB port binned out a few years ag...

Nationwide's press release about the Branch Promise said: The Promise ensures the Society is protecting branches and we will only close a branch when we absolutely need to, for example a lease expiry enforced by the landlord. They repeated that line when announcing the Virgin Money offer , specifyi...

That'll change when the Virgin Money takeover goes through. I can't see them keeping branches of both open long term if they're close to each other. Probably the reason their promise is only to 2026, two years from now. You're wrong on both accounts: We know branches are important to our customers....

JAS84 wrote: ↑Fri 05 Apr, 2024 13.53 Nationwide's ad campaign has been banned by the ASA for claiming that they weren't closing branches when they are.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68711510

*when they have - most recently in Feb 2023.

They haven't announced any closures since 2022 and no further closures are planned.

Retail parks often de-brand units following the closure of a unit, presumably it looks better to have an 'empty' unit than a closed one. Meadowhall used to go to great efforts to completely hide closed store fronts, boxing the whole thing over - although I noticed during covid when they lost a whole...

It looks like the prehistoric IBM/Toshiba tills at ASDA are finally being replaced with a new system with an NCR touchscreen - perhaps as part of the decoupling from Walmart. https://up.metropol247.co.uk/woah/thumbs/Asda.jpg Oooo. I noticed the Asda Express filling station (recently very cheaply co...

Debit cards can be used offline. Not universally. Online only debit cards, which may or may not be branded differently from offline-enabled debit cards, are a thing, and have been since Visa retired the Electron brand in the UK (at least). When they first moved to Visa from Solo/Maestro Natwest and...

JAS84 wrote: ↑Wed 20 Mar, 2024 17.26 Virgin as in Virgin Money, formerly Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, surely?

Surely?

JAS84 wrote: ↑Wed 20 Mar, 2024 17.26 It's not the same Virgin as five years ago.

Is it not?

JAS84 wrote: ↑Wed 20 Mar, 2024 17.26 As for Electron, they meant Visa Debit.

Do they?

Credit to my nearest Sainsbury's for the detailed information. https://up.metropol247.co.uk/Martin%20Phillp/GIzL-9LWEAAee-t.jpg The self-checkouts were open, although I did notice when I scanned my Nectar card that the till froze for around 10-15 seconds, but was accepted and got Nectar prices on a...

Subway is the one that has been most mullered by adding delivery in, in my experience. It used to be you could walk up and just expect it to take 2 mins + 1 min for each customer ahead of you. Now you can see an empty counter but still have a 10 min wait while they put several delivery orders togeth...