Originally Posted by
Concerto
The other thing that irritated me in Villeneuve was that they didn't take any credit cards. I mean, we're in the 3rd decade of the 21st century, aren't we?? This really a German and Swiss sickness, this card nonsense. I mean, it was only during Covid that a branch of the REWE supermarket that I use in Mülheim began accepting credit cards.
True that.
Over the last two years, I've spent a lot of time in Stockholm and London. I still have no idea how Swedish Kronor look like and the only Pound note I have is a Scottish one from 6 years ago I kept as a souvenir.
The Dutch have a bit of a first-adopter problem - card payments are widespread, but a lot of places are (or used to be until recently) set up to accept Dutch debit cards and not much else, most notably the biggest supermarket chain. But I still only extremely rarely use cash.