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Until they do, I just split my shopping and do multiple self service checkouts when necessary. Hopefully it costs them extra transaction fees! Serves them right for being such curmudgeons! Pretty much every other shop I go to supports unlimited Apple Pay.
Until they do, I just split my shopping and do multiple self service checkouts when necessary. Hopefully it costs them extra transaction fees! Serves them right for being such curmudgeons! Pretty much every other shop I go to supports unlimited Apple Pay.
I’m not sure if Asda does either. Yesterday I went shopping and my total bill was close to £80. My Apple Watch didn’t work at the self checkout terminal. Luckily I had the card with me. And I’m one of them who never ever carries their cards anywhere.
Asda (being part of Walmart) is quite anti-Apple/Google Pay, they've always enforced it at the contactless limit. There is new signage in Asda advertising the £45 limit now.
The last time I saw anything surrounding Apple Pay they mentioned March. I guess it got postponed because of Coronavirus.
Yeah I don't often shop at Asda - it's usually Lidl, Morrison's or Tesco and occasionally Sainsbury's. All but Tesco allow limitless Apple Pay. I also get fuel at Morrison's or Sainsbury's because they too allow limitless Apple Pay. Tesco are definitely losing out financially by continuing this nonsense.
Tesco’s catches me out every time when it declines my attempt to contactless pay using my watch. They need to catch up with the times
Same problem at Asda, I've spent £46 and £48 recently so both fail on watch, it's annoying to have to get my wallet out, put the card in the machine and then type in pin for the sake of a couple of £'s, especially at this time with Covid-19 out there.
There is a chance, within the next few weeks, some Tesco PFS sites *may* allow for Apple Pay for more than £30 when they update the software to accept contactless up to £45.
I don’t know when, or which stores, but I got the impression it would be a gradual roll out.
Here’s hoping 🤞🏽
I don’t know when, or which stores, but I got the impression it would be a gradual roll out.
Here’s hoping 🤞🏽
Morrisons is arguably worse than Tesco or Asda - they claim to support limitless Apple Pay but none of the tills at my local store have ever worked with Apple Pay. I've complained a few times and they always say it must be a temporary issue with a particular till. More like all of them, for at least a couple of years. Really winds me up when I see the Apple Pay logo plastered on the terminals as I forget how hopeless they are, try Apple Pay as normal, have it fail, hold up the queue as I find a physical card, probably wait for the assistant to reset the payment, put the physical card in the reader, type in my PIN, wait...
Fortunately I use Waitrose more frequently. Their tills have worked flawlessly with Apple Pay since day one.
Fortunately I use Waitrose more frequently. Their tills have worked flawlessly with Apple Pay since day one.
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Wonder if your local store has ever had their SACATs upgraded? The only I (rarely) use in Derby seems to have relatively new ones and they’ve never been a problem.
It’s been some time now since I moved away from the area but the Co-Op up the road from me would work fine one minute and be an complete and utter ar5e the next🙄. Haven’t been in a long time so it could well be fine these days.
Amex in Asda seems to not work again, I remember a few years back it didn’t, then it did, and now it doesn’t again. Even standard contactless with the actual Amex card doesn’t seem to work - I have to use PIN.
I no longer have it but I could never get my Lloyds Bank issued AmEx to work in Asda either.
I've never had a problem in Morrisons, in at least 3 or 4 different branches.
Update re: Tesco. It’s a gradual roll out to avoid problems with the systems but stores are being updated gradually to accept contactless up to £45 and Apple Pay up to £250.
I was able to pay over £46 with Pay at Tesco in Blackburn this morning, using the self-service checkout. 👍🏻
The Tesco I work in hasn’t caught up yet but it’s a step in the right direction. It’s probably been mentioned here before in the past but Waitrose have a £10,000 limit for Apple, Google and Samsung Pay 😬
The Tesco I work in hasn’t caught up yet but it’s a step in the right direction. It’s probably been mentioned here before in the past but Waitrose have a £10,000 limit for Apple, Google and Samsung Pay
Difference in the shoppers between Waitrose and Tesco.
Once I commit to Electric Tooth brush with some Sainsbury's groceries.
Is 40-50 pounds going to be accepted via iPhone or watch.
Is 40-50 pounds going to be accepted via iPhone or watch.
Sainsbury's have offered ApplePay for a long time, as in years.
I took this photo in 2017.
@d123
Thanes I never had reason to question Apple pay groceries limit, until my electric toothbrush become very difficult to remove battery cover.
Thanes I never had reason to question Apple pay groceries limit, until my electric toothbrush become very difficult to remove battery cover.