For those who remember, Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Not that I will ever have one of their cards, but doesn't everybody make up as much of the info as possible when filling in intrusive forms.

Mostly, I'm over 100 years old, live at the headquarters of the organisation concerned, email is junk@hotmail.com, and am a bisexual, mixed race, multitheist pagan.

So how much is a coffee?

My only experience in Europe was flying through Madrid Airport (on the way to Morocco.)

It was a triple combo... the dollar is fairly weak, airports always make stuff expensive, and Starbucks is pricey as well.

I got a large coffee (admittedly not black, it had some stuff mixed in....) and it was like 8 euros, this was $12 or so. Ouch!

Here in the midwestern US, cheap diner or fast foot coffee is like $0.75 to $1 or so (often this is quite burnt and nasty), regular coffee about $1.50, some really frilly thing could get you up to $3 or $4.

On the other hand in Morocco, a nice little shot of coffee was like about 5 dirhams (back then this was about $0.71). It is a small shot of very thick coffee, very well roasted and tasty and really has a kick to it (it seemed pretty similar everywhere I had it). The natives LOVE sugar and add as much as physically possible; I thought it was great black, but inevitably after a sip or two someone would say "no no you surely need some sugar" and I'd put it in, this was good as well 8-)

Oh.. back to the point... this makes a big diff on how big a deal a 10% discount is. Saving 7 cents a coffee is not worth it too me, but saving like a dollar apiece could be.

For the record, sQuidcard are the organisation behind the eMoney pilot for Coffee Republic.

"is actually based around Mifare"

That would be the 'everyone knows it's open to abuse' Mifare that had the Tube shut down for a couple of days, right ?