I didn't realise that Tesco had rolled out contactless to self service. I'd seen the button but it was always greyed out. Is there any obvious way of spotting their contactless self service tills?thegeek wrote:Free bananas for all!
I think the new card machines at Tesco are less fussy about when you present a card - in fact, am I right in saying that you can tap a contactless card without having to press the card button?
The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Nope, there's no Tesco at Paddington.WillPS wrote:Are you sure you're not getting mixed up with Tesco?Alexia wrote:Mix and match of old / new systems at Paddington Sainsburys.
Rather annoyingly, the old software didn't require you to press "CARD" when paying by card - you just slid it in the chip/pin device and it automatically went into card payment mode. Did it yesterday and the screen changed to a prompt "Press the CARD button" or similar. Can't see the TVL commuters being impressed with that...
The newer Ingenico Chip and PIN pads are fitted for contactless by the looks of it - rather than the Verifone pads that seem to have been fitted before (at least around here)m-in-m wrote:I didn't realise that Tesco had rolled out contactless to self service. I'd seen the button but it was always greyed out. Is there any obvious way of spotting their contactless self service tills?thegeek wrote:Free bananas for all!
I think the new card machines at Tesco are less fussy about when you present a card - in fact, am I right in saying that you can tap a contactless card without having to press the card button?
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scottishtv
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Yes, I noticed it at the time and took a few weeks to get used to... Grr. It's definately not part of the new Sainsbury's styling rollout. I nearly said new interface, but it's just the old one with a new font and colour scheme, right?Philip Cobbold wrote:Pressing the card button happens everywhere now. It was introduced about a year back as part of a software update
In fact the bright orange is gone and it's a lot lighter - in fact very like this exterior pic that was posted in the High Street Rebrand thread:
Just a bit odd that out of the bank of six self checkouts at the Edinburgh store I was in, three had the new style and the other three didn't...
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Philip Cobbold
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They roll out software updates to even numbered tills one night and then odd numbered the next night, so that if the update fails then there's still some checkouts working. Go back in a day or so and the other half will have been updated as well.
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Martin Phillp
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Popped into Morrisons on Thursday and in the 3 minutes I was scanning my basket, two other checkouts had the "Processing.....Please Wait" window come up. The assistant put one couple affected onto another checkout while the other one resolved itself.
Reboots, disk checks and/or card and cash only are the norm.
Once I scanned everything through and I was just about to pay, the terminal rebooted!
Reboots, disk checks and/or card and cash only are the norm.
Once I scanned everything through and I was just about to pay, the terminal rebooted!
TVF's London Lite.
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robschneider
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There's always at least one card/cash only till at my local Morrisons.
The self service tills in my local Tesco Express in Reading have lovely signs on them written on the back of a till roll saying "CARD ONLY!"
Very professional. Always seems to be something up with the coin hoppers etc by the looks of it. Pretty annoying seeing as they only ever have one person on the manned tills.
Very professional. Always seems to be something up with the coin hoppers etc by the looks of it. Pretty annoying seeing as they only ever have one person on the manned tills.
I can't believe people still use cash tbh. What's the point? I freak out when I have more than a fiver's worth of change now that I don't deal with buses.AJ wrote:The self service tills in my local Tesco Express in Reading have lovely signs on them written on the back of a till roll saying "CARD ONLY!"
Very professional. Always seems to be something up with the coin hoppers etc by the looks of it. Pretty annoying seeing as they only ever have one person on the manned tills.