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by Charlie Wells
Thu 21 Aug, 2025 20.25
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Unofficial Sainsbury's Thread
Replies: 872
Views: 794828

Re: The Unofficial Sainsbury's Thread


Just had 500 Nectar points stolen as apparently fraudsters have worked out how the Nectar card numbers work and are able to just give the number out.

If anyone has a lot of Nectar points, please turn on “points lock” in the app to avoid what’s happened to me. I didn’t even know it existed ...
by Charlie Wells
Fri 25 Jul, 2025 12.55
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Pres Cafe Watch News and Information Board
Replies: 628
Views: 491834

Re: Pres Cafe Watch News and Information Board


I wonder if the admins here will create a shelter for Pres Café users outside the UK and Ireland.

I'd recommend trying a VPN, though you may have to try a couple different connection points. Occasionally my VPN connection gets blocked by the site and I have to switch VPN location (within the UK ...
by Charlie Wells
Mon 14 Jul, 2025 12.41
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Pres Cafe Watch News and Information Board
Replies: 628
Views: 491834

Re: Pres Cafe Watch News and Information Board

It's pleasing to see that the MasterChef thread has been allowed to continue over the past week or so. From what I've seen posts have remained primarily presentation related, probably as by now users know that admin/mods would understandably clamp down on any discussion around the allegations.

It's ...
by Charlie Wells
Sun 06 Jul, 2025 20.13
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2185
Views: 1543197

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread


Out of nowhere my local big tesco has £1 locks on the trolleys. Apparently they'd lost £8,000 of trolleys and that is the threshold for head office to snap.

The fact there was no posters in advance to give notice of this change, and no freebie tokens to give away, probably lost them thousands in ...
by Charlie Wells
Mon 16 Jun, 2025 08.38
Forum: Birdsong
Topic: Will the UK ever adopt DAB+?
Replies: 32
Views: 54450

Re: Will the UK ever adopt DAB+?


Nine years (!) since the last post in this thread, DAB+ has truly taken off in the UK, to the point where from next month the only vanilla DAB stations left on the Digital One multiplex will be LBC and Talk Sport.

I find it interesting only because when I started this thread in 2011, I didn't ...
by Charlie Wells
Fri 13 Jun, 2025 13.48
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Windows 9 is now Windows 10
Replies: 259
Views: 233916

Re: Windows 9 is now Windows 10

I get the impression that eventually 'new Outlook' will replace 'Outlook Classic'. It looks like Microsoft have a target of April 2026 for this, but will continue to support the 'classic' version until at least 2029. (Annoyingly MS Publisher will no longer be supported from October 2026, but as of ...
by Charlie Wells
Tue 22 Apr, 2025 15.18
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: What's going on with all this gender stuff?
Replies: 56
Views: 56921

Re: What's going on with all this gender stuff?


This has actually disgsuted me... seriously considering resigning my Labour party membership

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crldey0z00ro

Really feels like he's trying to win back the Reform crowd without thinking about how it's alienating everyone else.

I assume you're referring to ...
by Charlie Wells
Wed 02 Apr, 2025 06.58
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Barclays and other non-Lloyds/TSB Bank thread
Replies: 287
Views: 441654

Re: The Barclays and other non-Lloyds/TSB Bank thread



In fact, almost nowhere uses the magnetic stripe and they will begin being removed from cards altogether imminently:
https://newsroom.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/magnetic-stripe/

The exception are cards which aren't traditional credit or debit cards. For example, prepaid high street ...
by Charlie Wells
Thu 13 Mar, 2025 15.15
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Public Transport in your particular part of the region
Replies: 607
Views: 522010

Re: Public Transport in your particular part of the region


So yeah, it's kinda nifty. But. This is not how you simplify things. Make the fares easier to understand in the first place. Let people tap in and out with their bank card - or if they don't want to do that, with a stored value on an ITSO smartcard.

It never fails to amaze me how people can look ...
by Charlie Wells
Wed 12 Mar, 2025 08.57
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2185
Views: 1543197

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread



The M&S app has a ‘scan as you shop’ function for the food hall with Apple Pay integrated, so no need to visit the checkout at all. It’s extremely handy when just nipping in for one or two things at lunchtime when even the self-checkout queues can be lengthy.


What happens when you purchase ...
by Charlie Wells
Tue 11 Mar, 2025 09.31
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2185
Views: 1543197

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread


The M&S app has a ‘scan as you shop’ function for the food hall with Apple Pay integrated, so no need to visit the checkout at all. It’s extremely handy when just nipping in for one or two things at lunchtime when even the self-checkout queues can be lengthy.

I didn't even realise their app had ...