In London almost half of payments under £30 are contactless, with Manchester and other cities also seeing big increases The amount spent by shoppers using contactless cards and devices soared by 164% last year, in another record-breaking year for increasingly popular “touch and go” payments. Half of Britons now pay by contactless payments at least once a month, according to the Barclaycard contactless spending index, while one in five (21%) are planning to increase their usag