Ah London. Such is the forward thinking city that stores are actually apologising to customers if they don’t offer contactless payment. Oyster cards are everywhere, of course, as people scan in and out of stations all over the city. Paying in stores, too, is much more common in London than it is elsewhere – the speed of life is such that people, it seems, don’t have time to even put their card and pin number in.
There’s a new, potential, form of payment as well – specifically for the tube. New contactless rings are for people who don’t even have time to scan an oyster card. The pitch is for those people who don’t want to “be fumbling around in their pockets for oyster cards” and for those who “are tired of watching other people fumble around looking for oyster cards.” We are running out of time, it seems, so hopefully these new contactless solutions will finally have people complaining less.