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I am in a generally cash-heavy location (Germany), but contactless cards (the usual German debit card also supports contactless by now) pretty much have covered
by detaro 5y ago
I am in a generally cash-heavy location (Germany), but contactless cards (the usual German debit card also supports contactless by now) pretty much have covered the pandemic. The usual holdouts are small food places, but I've used those a lot less. And I guess during the pandemic people used delivery or pick-up-scheduling apps a lot for those, with payments online.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoIs it difficult or expensive in Germany as a merchant to obtain a contactless card reader for accepting payments?
- detaro 5y agoSupermarkets and other larger stores by now have them pretty universally, as do fast-food chains etc. (which is why I haven't really needed cash anytime recently). I'm honestly not sure what the causes for the rest are, it could be that the debit card terminals are harder/more expensive to get for a small restaurant/bar and credit cards alone just isn't worth it? There is not yet an underlying cultural assumption that you'll accept cards as such a place, it mostly just catches tourists off guard, so they don't loose that much by not having it. What I can't remember ever seeing here are these readers that attach to phones, but I don't know how common those are elsewhere in small shops.