[rndgermandude]

huh? Every branch of my banks have card readers at the entrance that allow me to enter the area in the front with the ATMs and self-service machines 24/7. Every other bank I know has the same thing. Has been that way since at least 2 decades.

[TomMarius]

I've seen that during my roadtrip circle around Germany in Frankfurt, Koln, Hamburg and cities like that, but not in other parts of the country, especially not rural.

[Semaphor]

You need to be a customer of that specific bank. And if you are a Deutsche Bank customer, they don’t have that card reader here at all.