Originally Posted by
Barciur
While it might be outdated, as of June 2019 I still ran into a ton of places in the Netherlands (mostly supermarkets and smaller stores) that refused to take anything than Maestro.
Yep. People should keep in mind that interchange caps only affect the part of what the merchant pays that goes to the issuing bank; it's still possible for the acquiring bank to take a significant chunk for themselves (which they very well might be doing for non-Maestro/V PAY in the Netherlands).