The ease of payment, ability to monitor your outgoings (24%), lessened queuing time (45%), and no longer needing to carry cash (59%), were the key reasons for choosing the ‘touch and go’ payment method.
Other key findings:
the seven in 10 (69%) UK adults use contactless payments on a daily basis;
UK finance’s recent data shows there are 124 million contactless cards in the UK, with 7.4 billion payments being made in 2018;
Londons contactless system set the gold standard being adopted around the world.
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