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Yes. > During the morning on Thursday, no ICA store in Sweden could accept card payments. Instead, you had to use cash, Swish or pay via their app. > The reas
by KomoD 3y ago
Yes.
> During the morning on Thursday, no ICA store in Sweden could accept card payments. Instead, you had to use cash, Swish or pay via their app.
> The reason behind the problem was an internal problem in the payment systems at ICA as a result of an extra day in February, leap day.
ICA being the biggest grocery store chain in Sweden
- guappa 3y agoAnd people in sweden look at me weird when I say I keep some cash around. At least it wasn't 3 days like when Coop's provider got hacked. They also handle our pay checks at work… makes me feel so safe :D
- evanb 3y agoParticularly odd since the Swedish calendar has had a lot of leap-day shenanigans, including a one-time Feb 30th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#February_30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#Feb...