Cash

Very happy for you to share your love of B&M as long as it’s on topic, but “MODS” even in upper case will not bring either myself or TallPaul to your assistance (I only happened to see your post as I flew by on my broomstick). 

Any member wanting to attract mod attention needs to tag us.
To tag me type @ admin (but without the space after @)
For his nibs type @ pdc1 (but without the space after @)

Theres a handy reminder of this in my signature below ⬇️

Sorry, I'm going to seem very slow here; but when I'm composing a post and I want to 'tag' someone, where do I put the text.  is it just BurlyBeaR anywhere in the body of my post?

Thanks.

That's one of the things I notice and I mentioned it in my post.  But another thing I see is people presenting a phone or chip and pin and being told it hasn't gone through. Sometimes it's because they've put it in the wrong way but sometimes, too, the machine just won't have it despite the customer's protestations that the p.i.n. is correct and there's plenty in the account.  I don't presume to doubt them because it's happened to me at self-checkouts.  I've had the message 'transaction declined' when I know I've done everything right.  Last time it repeatedly gave this message and I ended up putting the shopping through another checkout which promptly accepted the card first time.  If it happens to me - and I seldom use a card at a supermarket - I don't feel inclined to doubt other people when they say it's the store's/bank's equipment. Only last week a customer in front of me had to leave the checkout and go to the store's ATM to get cash on the same card the checkout was rejecting.

PS In my case it was chip and pin - by choice I don't have a contactless chip on my card.