Iām the that type of person who notices tiny inconsistencies in merchant info then canāt unsee them. None of this is like a major deal but ya know, I canāt unsee any of this
I also been made aware that yous enrich merchants by moving fingers and fingers arenāt perfect so Iāll try to be as gentle as i can:
- Here are transactions from 3 different dollar tree locations. I have no clue where the 2 different logos come from, both later added by Monzo.
- The IKEA UK twitter logo was later added by Monzo for a transaction that happened at an IKEA in US.
- Hereās an interesting one: Wawa low key changed their twitter icon from their usual red to purple for Halloween. I went to different Wawas, and yous see that the transaction logs show when Wawa switched a purple twitter icon for halloween then switched back afterwards.
Since these are all (mostly) different locations, I can infer that Monzo is eitherstoring the icon as it appeared at the time of enchantment for each merchant OR
storing the twitter username for each merchant, then capturing the icon as it appeared at the time of the transaction. (They say there are 2 hard problems in computing, and cache invalidation is 1 of them!
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May need to tap to see the whole thing on this onem
- Han Dynasty, aka Handy Nasty? I personally find nothing wrong with this one, itās is too perfect
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- Iāve had various issues using my monzo at New Jersey Transit ticket machines (sometimes Iāll get double holds, sometimes Iāll not get charged at all). Turns out that the vendor that makes the ticket machines for NJ Transit has a track record of being pre-ty incompetent resulting in, uh, some very cursed merchant info:
I wonder if there is a way to automatically flag and correct locations in merchant data that may be incorrect, especially if like the city and state pair doesnāt seem to add upā¦
Anyways those are my fresh observations on some things Iāve noticed! this is the type of stuff that, for some reason, is keeping me up at night when i look thru my transactions trying to categorise them (in bed) as i write this post