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RFID Payment Cards Begin in Scotland

Friday, June 23, 2006

So far, eight retail outlets, including Starbucks, Tesco, a canteen and a hairdresser’s are participating in the pilot and have had their till systems fitted with RFID reader pads.

We’re talking about Scotland, where The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has this week started testing RFID-equipped payment cards to reduce queues in shops, reports VNU NEWS.

The bank is working with MasterCard to test the contactless card payment system at its Edinburgh headquarters. A third of RBS’s 3,000 staff based at its Gogarburn campus have been issued with the cards, which allow them to pay for goods costing less than £10. [end] 

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