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Did they have some sort of agreement not to complete with commercial cashless payment systems? It always puzzled me why you couldn't use your oyster card to pay
by gandalfian 5y ago
Did they have some sort of agreement not to complete with commercial cashless payment systems? It always puzzled me why you couldn't use your oyster card to pay for a sandwich or even a platform vending machine? Everyone had the card yet they only worked for transport tickets?
- askvictor 5y agoI think there were concerns that that would be equivalent to the Government running a bank, which was either illegal, or frowned upon in the prevailing economic thinking.
- exporectomy 5y agoMight be to keep fraud down since you can re-sell physical items or buy a lot of them at once, unlike transport rides.