Unable to use Easy Green card at grocery store

Thijs-Maroon-Leopard

I got an Easy Green card with the idea to use it for all of my purchases. However, I can't figure out how to use the card at my local grocery store (Albert Heijn). If I use the metal card, it is not accepted by the pin machine. I can imagine that is because it's a credit card. So I also added the card to Apple Pay, but when I try to use that it is also refused.

So now I'm paying to have Easy Green, yet I can't use it for most of my personal spending, which makes it pretty useless to me at the moment.

Is it supposed to work with Apple Pay at AH?

Bastiaan

Thijs Hello,

Albert Heijn only supports Maestro and V-Pay cards, no Mastercard unfortunately.
Mastercard is supported at, for example, Lidl, Aldi, Action, Kruidvat and some Jumbo shops.

Jakob-Y

Thijs So now I'm paying to have Easy Green

On Easy Money and Easy Green, you can order up to 3 cards for no extra costs. If you're often gonna use shops that don't accept Mastercard, my recommendation would be to also get a Maestro card. You can of course use the Maestro card with Apple Pay if you want and then pay at AH.

Thijs-Maroon-Leopard

Jakob I have a debit card for that account too, but I was under the impression that using those will not result in trees being planted. Is that correct? Because if that is the case, I might as well choose Easy Money over Easy Green because I hardly use my CC for personal spending.

Jakob-Y

Thijs Is that correct?

That's not correct. All cards count in the same way.

Thijs-Maroon-Leopard

Jakob Thanks for clearing this up! I'll start using my debit card instead then.