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by ashkulz 17 days ago
In fact, card acceptance has gone _up_ in my experience. Unless you're using a very small shop which just has a QR code, most businesses now use a POS which supports a lot of payment methods including cards.

I agree that a lot of businesses now actively don't manage cash as they used to earlier... it's very difficult to get low-value notes as the central bank seems to be slowly reducing the supply by not printing as per demand.
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devsda 17 days ago
> card acceptance has gone _up_ in my experience.

Yes acceptance may have gone up, but I think thats a side effect of normalizing digital transactions popularized by UPI.

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EnnEmmEss 14 days ago
Card acceptance may be up (I can't comment one way or another) but last I was in India, a large number of POS seem to straight up block international Credit Cards.
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ashkulz 14 days ago
Yep, international/amex cards aren't enabled by default by most POS providers (_due to the high fees on the merchant side_) and most small businesses don't really know or care enough to enable them.
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