Shop checkout card readers failing eg. ALDI

jpaul said:
Local Aldi has card readers that now fail ~100% to read my Lloyds bank card, which works fine everywhere else.

Are some readers just poorly maintained, badly adjusted, or, with high use of contactless, have they just stopped updating archaic equipment ?

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update -clarifying
all readers in that store fail - does not 'see' the card when you insert it.
maybe this model is unreliable ?
personnel don't acknowledge that other customers have issues
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There's a typo on the screen
"£30 ilmit for contactless. Use Apple Pay for any amount."

Looks pretty fishy to me
 
LeeUK said:
Also with years of retail experience, in-store IT isn't monitored for faults or downtime and things only get fixed if and when reported.
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Yup and even then the card terminals will be leased from the bank or payment provider, who in my experience, are always reluctant to act on a fault let alone replace a terminal.
 
Jaaay said:
There's a typo on the screen
"£30 ilmit for contactless. Use Apple Pay for any amount."
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No there isn't - there is dust or a scratch across the "l". The 2nd character is clearly an "i" as the character is the same height as the next "i"
 
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robfosters said:
Tesco’s is where I shop and they definitely declined it over £30. I tend to stay away from Aldi and Lidl’s because of all the working class diseases.
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Lol :p

Yeh Tesco definitely limits Apple Pay, whereas other places I’ve used it there isn’t a limit as such.

My mate who’s a store manager at Screwfix says Apple Pay can be used up to £20k. How true that is I don’t know but he’s had a customer come in and spend £3k and it went through on Apple Pay.
 
I was not surprised nor disappointed that my contactless card worked in Aldi last night, and my partner used Apple Pay to pay the £9.5k balance when buying her car.
 
OK maybe I should consider swapping to contactless cards ...

whilst I can see if you are queing in a fast food restaurant/pub they are probably efficient, you still need to get it out your wallet, and,
for supermarkets, negligible additional time, indeed the device holds the card while you wait for receipt and then put both back in wallet

Tap&Pin seems to be offered in europe that would seem to be the best of all worlds, security considered.

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The UK's love affair with contactless payments continues to flourish, with almost one in two transactions now tap and pay, according to Mastercard figures.

There has been a 95% increase in contactless transaction in the year to date, with the technology now representing 46% of all transactions every month, says Mastercard.....
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I can't use my business credit card at the train station, fails literately 90% of the time. If I have arrived early and there is no one waiting in line I sometimes spend a good 5 to 10 minutes just trying incessantly. Eventually it will work though, so it isn;t an absolute fault. I can use my personal credit card without issue but takes more work for me to separate out bills for accounting.
 
My local Overground Line station in London used to refuse my bank card consistently across both machines. Credit card from "same" bank (Nationwide) always worked. Just got used to remembering to use the credit card, or letting a train go while I fiddled with my wallet.
 
I have this problem with the same type of machine when using my Santander card. For some reason, it doesn't hold in the machine to the extent that it should and so it ends up not being in the correct position to be read. My workaround is to just push the card in and hold it in place whilst typing my pin in.

EDIT: If it's contactless payments that aren't working then I'm not sure.
 
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