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Old Aug 30, 2014 | 6:42 am
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Originally Posted by uklevi
This is a question for UK posters--
Does anyone else notice that with a contactless UK debit card, at Tesco, after you enter your PIN in the PIN-pad, it always approves the transaction immediately and processes the transaction offline like it was a contactless transaction even though it wasn't a contactless transaction?
Most low-value transactions are processed offline in the UK, it's nothing to do with contactless.
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