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French supermarket chain Intermarche has introduced an NFC shopping service at its lssy-les-Moulineaux, Paris store, enabling customers to add products to a digital shopping basket and receive personalised discount vochers with a tap of their NFC phone.

The spending limit for contactless transactions is to be increased from £20(US $30)to £30(US $46) in September 2015, The UK Cards Association has told NFC World. The move follows the news last week that contactless card usage surged in the UK in 2014 to 319.2m transactions with total spend more than trebling to a record £2.32 bn.