> It was as if parts of Germany’s payment system had just travelled through a wormhole back to the 1990’s I guess the author has not had much experience with

> It was as if parts of Germany’s payment system had just travelled through a wormhole back to the 1990’s I guess the author has not had much experience with Germany? It’s more like the 2000s or even the early 2010s. Only the combination of covid, some pro-cashless regulations and SumUp (cheap card readers, standalone or phone-attachments) made it possibly to forego always carrying cash for me.