Tesco has said it will not be increasing the contactless limit for card or phone payments in its stores from €30 to €50. The banking and payments industry is working to introduce the higher limit at retail outlets across the country from tomorrow in order to encourage the use of contactless card and phone payments in the place of cash and thereby help reduce the transmission of Covid-19.
However, Tesco said that while it had scoped the project thoroughly and looked at every possible way to introduce the change seamlessly, in order to do so, it would have to carry out a manual fix on over 4,600 terminals in 151 shops across the country.