[dewey]

> Which is fine. Buy (electric) fuel like you'd buy a bread.

Are you implying you are able to can use a card to pay in a German bakery?

[Vespasian]

COVID changed a lot.

I can pay by card in chain bakeries and most non chain bakeries around me.

My supermarket recently upgraded their card reader to a model which doesn't take an eternity to process a nfc transaction.

Restaurants are the biggest hold outs and there many which still only take cash (presumably for "tax reasons").

[martin_a]

Yes!

As others have mentioned, Covid was a huuuuuuge boost for the acceptance of cashless payment systems in Germany. Even small business now have card readers and don't raise an eye when you want to pay 7,83 by card.

If anything good came out of Covid it might be this.

[deadbunny]

You can use cards prettey much everywhere in the EU. From massive chains to street carts.

[dewey]

> From massive chains to street carts.

I was specifically talking about Germany and its love for cash. It can be tricky to pay with cards in restaurants and small stores. It is a well known quirk.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200520-will-coronavir...

[chrisseaton]

Not in Germany!

[thesimon]

Has been steadily on the rise, most German bakeries I know now have card payments.

[dgellow]

In Hamburg I pay using my Apple watch all the time, even when it's just for a Franzbrötchen or other small orders

[volta83]

I do every day, smaller bakery (no chain), they don't take cash anymore since COVID.

[ahartmetz]

Maybe if it's colocated with or part of a supermarket.

[ntp85]

Most, if not all, bakeries in my vicinity allow card payments. Even the small, owner operated bakery a few blocks downtown.

I know, purely anecdotal. But it goes to show that we Germans maybe aren't as backwards-thinking ;)