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Subway's Canada stores go contactless

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Participating Subway restaurants in Canada will soon be accepting Visa’s contactless payWave cards. Chase Paymentech, the merchant acquirer of record for Subway in Canada, will handle the implementation and provide support for the contactless terminals.


“We are looking forward to the opportunity to understand the impact of contactless on speed of service as well as understanding how many of our customers take advantage of this payment method,” said Marina O’Rourke, director of Retail Technology at Subway World Headquarters.

The deployment of Visa payWave enabled Visa cards and POS terminals is aligned with Visa’s migration to chip card technology in Canada. Visa employs a layered approach to its fraud prevention efforts, including technology on the card itself as well as on Visa’s processing network to help heighten security efforts.

The Subway restaurant chain is the world’s largest submarine sandwich franchise, with nearly 31,000 locations in 89 countries, including more than 2,400 in Canada. [end] 

Superdrug, one of Britain’s largest beauty and health retailers, has introduced contactless payment for its in-store customers, according to Retail Gazette.

Created by Streamline and Visa Europe, the contactless system will enable customers to make payments of up to £15 (approx. USD $23) by simply waving their contactless bank card at the more than 50 participating Superdrug stores in London and Liverpool.

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As some may recall back in June 2010, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York launched tap-and-go contactless payments for commuters to enter select subway stations and participating bus lines using MasterCard PayPass-enabled terminals. Well, the results are in.

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In Europe, the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) and EPASOrg has developed a new global standard to help accommodate changes in new payment technologies, according to SupermarketNews.com

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Entertainment retail chain HMV has announced it will adopt Visa payWave contactless payments in 116 stores across Canada.

Starting this month, HMV customers nationwide will be able to pay for music, DVDs, video games, books and more with a simple tap of their contactless payWave-enabled credit or debit card at the point of sale.

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Australian supermarket chain Coles is gearing up to launch contactless payments in stores by mid-2012, according to CNET Australia.

Despite expressing misgivings about NFC security back in August, Coles says they will go ahead with a payment terminal roll out that will see customers making contactless purchases of $100 or less.

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Visa and Imperial Parking Canada Corp. (Impark) are teaming up to offer Visa payWave contactless payments to 72 of its attended parking facilities across Canada.

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