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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hi neighbor!

In Sweden especially restaurants tends to be cash-less only. While cash is still possible in supermarkets etc, i see most digital payments. I do have some 'emergency' cash but Can't remember the last time I paid in cash. (Don't miss all that loose change).

As soon as an european alternetive for visa / mastercard is available I'll swap

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    As soon as an european alternetive for visa / mastercard is available I’ll swap

    Absolutely, this can't happen soon enough.
    Cash is still legal tender here, meaning they have to be able to take it in supermarkets.
    However I think there must have been a change to the law, because the new chargers for Electric cars cannot take cash, and that would have been illegal a few years ago.
    You can only pay with card or phone.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    That means they're going to do away with liquid € by the end of this year ?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    IDK what you mean by liquid €?
    AFAIK EU is determined to have a digital Euro payment system soon, I assume all EU countries can use that.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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    No that is not currently possible. The Scandinavian countries could do it, but most of the rest of EU cannot, because they don't have a solid enough infrastructure to not have old fashioned cash.

    When we talk cash here, we mean physical cash as in non digital payments.
    But even though EU as a whole isn't ready to go cashless yet, they can still make limitations on cash payments like the ones we have here in Denmark.
    And that can be used to increase national oversight of how money is being used.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Going off topic : while people in my place are crazy about Brazilian football, or Messi or Argentina, personally l love the Nordic teams when it comes to football. My town had been a French colony, while a neighbouring town had been Danish.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not a football fan, or a fan of any sport. But I do know that here Argentina is very highly regarded as a leading football nation.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Denmark Sweden play far better football.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, I'm surprised you think so, I thought Brazil and Argentina were better. But again, it's not something I really follow. When I was a child in the 70's, Denmark was "rΓΈven a fjerde division." a very impolite way of saying we sucked very very badly. The ass (bottom) of the fourth league. And Sweden was way better than us.
    then a plan was made in the Danish football league, that we needed to make professional football legal, and build the top league around professional teams like they had in for instance UK.
    That paid off already in 1984 where Denmark reached the semi final in the European championship. A previously completely unheard of result for the national team. Where in the 70's I doubt we ever even qualified to participate.
    I still remember some of the names of the Danish national team from back then, and that we lost to France.
    8 years later we actually won the European championship over Germany, ironically during very tough negotiations in EU, because Denmark had voted no to a new treaty.
    Our foreign minister even saw the match together with the German delegation, and the smirk on his face when he came out after was priceless. And he said: "If you can't join them, beat them!"
    I can't overstate how much of a sensation it was for us to win the European championship, as a very small country against many countries with 20 times as much money and talent to pull from.

    Those were good times. 😎 πŸ˜€ πŸ˜‹ πŸŽ‰

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Is that legal? Doesn't the government enforce businesses to accept legal money?

    On the other hand, last time there was a long blackout I was quite happy to have cash.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Is that legal?

    Never looked it up but Given the scale it's happening, I say yes, it's legal. It's even quite common in stores to see only one register accepting cash & card while all others only take cards.

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