Starbucks

[mattccrush]

I was at a branch of Starbucks today, the shop assistant asked me to place my debit card into a tray and he took it away, legally, does anyone know this is permitted?

[paulajayne]

1. Silly for letting it out of your sight.
2. Was the purchase below £45 - I would imagine so.

They should have a point of purchase machine.

[Manxman]

Did they take it out of your sight?

I'd complain to Starbucks and say that they shouldn't be doing this in these days of contactless payments**. As posted above they should bring a contactless terminal to you. And if you need to key in a PIN that should be no problem. They can disinfect the keys after you've used it. Mind you, I've not noticed any supermarkets I use disinfecting terminals after people have keyed in numbers.

Keep an eye on your bank account.

** The point being, once it's out of your sight it could be used for somebody else's contactless payment

[des8]

or cloned