Technology? Who needs it!

The Daily Disaster amused me yet again today by revealing that “contactless” store cards don’t give the customer less hassle. They’re supposed to spare people the ordeal of having to put the card in a reader but some machine will charge items to them when they’re a lot further away from their reader than the couple of inches the customer is told about. As a result, the customer can pay with another piece of plastic then find he has all the hastle of having to claim back the cash from a phantom simultaneous purchase made with the “contactless” card, which never went anywhere near the reader. One step forward, two back.