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I’m a huge fan of the Pasmo/Suica cards. They’re easy to obtain and easy to accept payments, so uptake is huge (if memory serves me correctly, literally accepte

I’m a huge fan of the Pasmo/Suica cards. They’re easy to obtain and easy to accept payments, so uptake is huge (if memory serves me correctly, literally accepted everywhere?). You get most of the benefits of card payments (fast, no fiddling with change, no “do you have a smaller note”), but you also maintain anonymity which is a common argument I hear against cards in Germany and why card payments are so rare there (at least in 2017, I don’t know if the situation has changed).

leipert 4y ago
In Germany the pandemic had quite an impact. From 2019 to 2021 cash payments dropped by ~12%, down to 38% of transactions. What’s more important, loads of shops eg bakeries have card terminals now. Source: https://www.papershift.com/blog/die-kartenzahlung-ist-in-deutschland-auf-dem-vormarsch https://www.papershift.com/blog/die-kartenzahlung-ist-in-deu...
- netsharc 4y ago
  Although the chances of formite transmission (i.e. through touch) is apparently quite low: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-research/surface-transmission.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-r... Disclaimer: Everyone seems to have their own level of risk tolerance/acceptance with Covid.
totetsu 4y ago
They’re not quit accepted everywhere. Mostly in high convenience, small purchase places. You can get multiples of them for maximum privacy, but they’re 500yen each to purchase.
iggldiggl 4y ago
Something like that (for general payments, not for public transport) used to exist in Germany ("Geldkarte"), but it never became a big success and is now being discontinued. And personally speaking – not being able to easily look up how much money is stored on that card is somewhat annoying, so I'd rather continue carrying cash in that case.

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I’m a huge fan of the Pasmo/Suica cards. They’re easy to obtain and easy to accept payments, so uptake is huge (if memory serves me correctly, literally accepte

by shortcake27 4y ago

leipert 4y ago
In Germany the pandemic had quite an impact. From 2019 to 2021 cash payments dropped by ~12%, down to 38% of transactions. What’s more important, loads of shops eg bakeries have card terminals now. Source: https://www.papershift.com/blog/die-kartenzahlung-ist-in-deutschland-auf-dem-vormarsch https://www.papershift.com/blog/die-kartenzahlung-ist-in-deu...
- netsharc 4y ago
  Although the chances of formite transmission (i.e. through touch) is apparently quite low: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-research/surface-transmission.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-r... Disclaimer: Everyone seems to have their own level of risk tolerance/acceptance with Covid.
totetsu 4y ago
They’re not quit accepted everywhere. Mostly in high convenience, small purchase places. You can get multiples of them for maximum privacy, but they’re 500yen each to purchase.
iggldiggl 4y ago
Something like that (for general payments, not for public transport) used to exist in Germany ("Geldkarte"), but it never became a big success and is now being discontinued. And personally speaking – not being able to easily look up how much money is stored on that card is somewhat annoying, so I'd rather continue carrying cash in that case.