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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not entirely sure about that but definitely not in the timescales you're suggesting, and not with the technologies that we know of now either. A decade is nothing, we're over two decades in to SCOs being a thing now (and three since the earliest SAYS type things).

Worth noting that across the ...

It all feels like it’ll be irrelevant in the coming decade anyway. Surely some form of just-walk-out technology will eventually be the norm. RFID feels like the way forward if it can be developed to be smaller / cheaper. Zara use it well for their self checkouts.

Decathlon also use RFID on their ...

Personally I'm surprised one of the traditional Big 4 haven't split their estate in half. Their massive expansion in the 00's and 10's have left them extremely confused.

Tesco did try it some years ago by launching Jacks in 2018, I think converting some stores and utilising at least one dormant ...

McDonald's is still fast food, but cooler now.

I love it when my fast food is cold.

The food at the one I visited the other weekend was nice and hot.

I dare say customising the order may help to ensure it's fresh. For example, with chips choosing to have 'no salt'. It may mean waiting ...

With regards to Morrisons one thing has improved in the past year. The cafe now has an '8 item breakfast' option, where you can select what you want. No more having to order the standard breakfast and pay extra for items you want, even if you'd asked to remove a different item.

Also, at my nearest ...

It's worth baring in mind that Elon recently changed X so that paid users could earn a share of the revenue from interactions with their posts. This was presumably to increase traffic on X and advert revenue. The downside is that it effectively encourage people to make controversial opinions, as ...