Originally Posted by
SwissCircle
Most stores in Germany do not except Visa/Master/Amex cards.
This is mostly due to the cost incurring when accepting them. This then leads to fewer people using them which leads to higher fees for merchants accepting them.
In short, merchants are just to greedy here and not customer service oriented.
I don't think this is to do with greedy merchants at all. It's to do with lack of demand.
Although things have started to change Germany is still very much a cash society. People have now got into the habit of using
debit cards, but very few people use
credit cards for day-to-day things. Those who have credit cards (and there are still many who don't!) will often keep them in their desks at home rather than carry in their wallets, and put them into their wallets only when they go travelling abroad.