Headline News - February 8, 2007
- Tesco, United Kingdom’s Top Supermarket Chain, Rolls Out Coinstar Coin Counting
- Tully’s Coffee to Accept MasterCard® PayPass™ at All Retail Locations
- Tully’s Coffee to Accept Visa Contactless Payments, Customers Speed Through Checkout Lines
- Chockstone Fuels Community Coffee Company’s Sales and Customer Service
- American Express Announces Tully's to Accept ExpressPay for Contactless Payments
This is great news. I use MasterCard PayPass, and although I do not live on the west coast where Tully's Coffee is located it is great news for those who frequent this chain.
I find that PayPass is far superior to Visa Contactless and American Express ExpressPay. PayPass is offered in card, on a key chain payment tag and mobile phone (Nokia 3220 and 6131 NFC). Visa Contactless, I believe, is only offered in the card itself, and American Express only offered ExpressPay on a key chain tag or in the card itself of select AMEX products. The PayPass brand is advertised better and financial institutions have embraced it more quickly than the competitors. Chase credit and debit products call their contactless technology Blink, which encompasses both the Visa and MasterCard products.
More info on the MasterCard product, which has even been implemented in mobile phones is located at:
http://www.mastercard.com/us/personal/en/aboutourcards/paypass/index.html
or
http://www.mastercard.com/us/paypass/mobile/index.html
Posted by: A. S. | February 08, 2007 at 10:41 AM