[silvester23]

Regarding cash payments, things have slightly improved due to covid. Many places that did not use to accept cards/phones now do but there's still a ways to go.

And then of course there are many smaller places that only accept cash payments for the same reason they only enter half of your order into their cash register.

[helloguillecl]

Oh yes it has improved a bit... If you happen to be paying paying at least 10 EUR :), otherwise you'd be bellow the mindestbetrag

[tetris11]

That's the same as the UK though. Corner shops lose money if the total purchase is less than 10 GBP

[hvgk]

They don’t because everything costs much more in them.

[carlmr]

Yes, you have to compare to lost sales, but then again people in Germany are used to carry cash, so lost sales is maybe low enough not to matter.