To want a plastic card

[crinklyfoil]

Recently lost my purse and needed to replace all my cards.

John Lewis, morrisons, M and S and Boots all don’t offer a card any more. Instead you access your account via your phone.

It’s such a faff. Instead of opening my purse and paying I have to fumble for my phone, unlock it (not easy with a face mask) find the app, find the card.

I’d far rather just have the card there.

I'm with you. My Waterstones loyalty card is on the app and I hate fiddling around with my phone at the till. I try to remember to load up the QR thing before then, but I usually have my hands full of books.

I think Waterstones does give you a physical card if you request one though (again, I never remember). Is there definitely no option to do that?

I’m the opposite. I prefer them on my phone - I sometimes struggle to find my purse as I never use it anymore.
But ask whether they do a physical card - they may offer it just not as standard

No and it’s really annoying!

They don’t - I rang up to ask.

That's really poor. There are significant numbers of people without a smartphone.

Try the stocard app.

You can put all of your loyalty cards on one app.

@Yafilthyanimal

Try the stocard app.

You can put all of your loyalty cards on one app.

I don't think that will help the OP at all.

Read her description of her phone interaction.

I have the Sto card app which holds all the cards on one place rather than apps for each. Might be worth a try?

DS often pulling down mask to unlock his phone in shop... I am grateful nobody snapped at him!

Well, I do have it but it doesn’t really help - frantically trying to find the one I want!

It was so simple to just have my boots card and debit card to hand!

Morrisons have just annoyed me full stop. Not only have they stopped actual cards and paper vouchers in favour of all being on your smart phone (which my elderly parents dont have), I used to save all the £5 vouchers for a splurge at Christmas. Cant do that any more as any money off comes off bill automatically as you spend. I saved £5 on a shop last week and didnt even notice till I looked at the receipt later on. Not as nice as saving up the £'s for a special occasion.

If I can't have a card then they'll stop being able to see my spending habits. I'm not faffing with extra apps on my phone, that storage space is for me to take oodles of photos, not to be a replacement for a card!

And you can no longer use the more card for fuel.

If you have an iPhone with face recognition you can add an "alternative appearance", I think this would allow people to unlock whilst wearing a mask if they used this option to add another photo. Hth someone

Presumably this will become more and more the norm. Oh dear.

Thanks whiskers, I still just want the card, though!

YANBU. I do wonder what will happen as each generation ages and struggles to use any new technology. Memories fade, arthritis can set in, eyesight is poor - yet we will all be expected to use phones for everything. It's fine when you're younger, but we all get old eventually (if we're lucky).

@whiskersonkittenss

If you have an iPhone with face recognition you can add an "alternative appearance", I think this would allow people to unlock whilst wearing a mask if they used this option to add another photo. Hth someone

It doesn’t work with a mask, I’ve tried it. It tells you that your features are obscured.

Oh that's a shame

I do wonder how face recognition works for identical twins

Well, people who don't want to faff or who don't have a smartphone will just shop elsewhere!

@whiskersonkittenss

If you have an iPhone with face recognition you can add an "alternative appearance", I think this would allow people to unlock whilst wearing a mask if they used this option to add another photo. Hth someone

There's no way I'd give my face to Apple! ( or whoever makes iphones)

I do wonder how face recognition works for identical twins

As I have identical twins I can tell you - not very well is the answer! Google home and Alex also get their voices confused as well.

That’s really interesting!

@Yafilthyanimal

Try the stocard app.

You can put all of your loyalty cards on one app.

I second that - it’s fabulous! You can have them all on one app, even National Trust, English Heritage etc. Nowadays, all I need when I go shopping, is my phone.