Retailers' attitudes to EFTPoS

The Connect card may be seen as a transitional stage towards EFTPoS, about which there has been a great deal of controversy over the past few years. The current situation is that, with the aim of setting standards for a national system, a development scheme currently under way will see a small inaugural service involving 2,000 terminals in three UK locations during 1988. These will be at Southampton, Leeds and Edinburgh.